Week 2 Review

What if you cared less about achievements and being useful, and did more useless things? What would it mean for you to dance, make art, write poetry, and pray purely for the delight in the act of creation?" Amongst the many questions put forth in week two's chapter, these are the ones that resonated with me. Many people that I encounter would count their life as not worth anything unless they are doing something to benefit others because doing things simply for their individual joy is frowned upon. I am a woman of leisure and joy is my purpose in life and I want to create just for my own personal delight. It is useful to me and that is what matters.

"Awe, wonder and holy curiosity; visual explorations, poetry writing exploration," these are just a few of the topics/offerings in week two, but my favorite section is called, "Living in the Border Spaces." I love this section because it is all about living in the place that I call the fringes. The author refers to the border spaces as fertile ground that is filled with beauty and mystery. I am not interested in what the mainstream is doing in art or the ways in which they are choosing to be creative, I want my art to reflect my sense of life and not that of the status quo and by living on the fringes/border spaces, my mind becomes fertile ground.

My favorite quote from week two is:

"This border country is a place of intense vitality. It does not so much draw us away from the everyday world as it plunges us deeper into a reality of which the everyday world is like the surface....To live there for a while is like having the veils pulled away." So the border spaces are not necessarily a place(but they can be), as much as they are a state of being.

Have a wonder filled week.