My little cousin, Henry Auden,
Named for many poets of different ways,
Exclaimed
the above, prefaced by “It’s not smart to bite a dog.”
Since I
heard it, I’ve smiled with it –
Knowing it
holds, simply, so much.
What a world
to live in,
To know such
truth and smile with it,
Each
memory-time.
To express
what we learn, what we know, even as we explore and discover, is to create
another image of the world to share – one more human mirror which reflects into
a million million’s points of glancing and seducing shadow and light. The expression “own it” as a way of describing
accepting responsibility for or a defined relationship with expresses more too,
in this path of pioneering and discovery. Our human need and desire to explore
is our desire to know more, to find more that suits us, that teaches us, where
we can plant new flags, new roots, send back new images as we store them in our
memory and hang them on our walls or draw them to fold and keep close to us, no
matter where we go.
The gift of
searching for knowledge which leads us to our internal treasure house of
infinite memory and the mind of Creative pleasure continues to give, to express
itself, as we become the conduits of its expression. Love becomes us as we
accept the gifts of life.
Anger is the
emotion of self-judgment. Anger is a motivator of change, just as it is within
Earth, and we evolve together. We are inextricably linked as chemical energy,
evolving consciousness. The building blocks of life are rough and tumble, like
children eager in using their bodies, jumping, playing, laughing, sweating,
crying, bumping into one another with full-on enthusiasm of energy Being.
For me, this
beautiful lesson of learning to break down barriers of belief, of simply
splashing in the moment of time with full thought as Play, of sharing the
moment with fellow humans and all of glittering life, inviting our highest
thoughts to dance and reveal themselves through and to us – is one of being an
Artist, a true spiritual human.
This is how
and why Art captures the essence of us and presents itself as we are and as we
want to be.
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