Intent

One of my favorite quotes is by Martha Graham:

“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time. This expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it.

It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”


I've read that you "learn to write by writing...learn to love by loving...learn to cook by cooking..." and that all we can ever do is "start where we are". This is my attempt to start where I am….in order to move towards the nagging visions in my heart and mind. I'm not even sure how to do that with a blog - - but being here beckons me - - so I am going to "keep the channel open, stop questioning and just march on".

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

gratitude

The way I think can always use a little tweaking. There is rarely a moment when I am so full of gratitude that I would absolutely spill over and make a soupy, sticky, positive mess of all the people around me. . . . and really, I think my life would be better if that were the case. Too often, for example, I find myself focusing on the incessant, nerve grating car noise outside my bedroom window rather than on the fact that I have a bedroom, and a window...and a bed...and ears that work...and the option to put in ear plugs...or to just get up and go outside and take a walk...because I have legs...and they work too. Gratitude. When I can't change the world around me, or - mostly - the people...I can choose to change the way I look at it....or them.
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