On Creating is a lyric-philosophical essay on the act of making and on what survives it. It opens by refusing the idea that becoming "aligned in time" makes a person perfect or separate: the author remains, at forty-two, the same human shaped by his environment, seated between his mistakes and his successes. From there it turns to vocation — a late-life return to study at Maharishi International University, the timing accepted as līlā and synchronicity rather than something to be controlled — an
