I agree, I think many of us tend to wait for the perfect conditions to obtain or the perfect mood to settle on us before beginning something, when the activity itself will provide the transformation,
something I conquered with regard to exercise long ago, but find harder with writing!
I happened upon a few lines from a weel kent book, Ishmael, that I thought somewhat relevant. Maybe just to life if not your article! “There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, they will live at odds of the world. Given a story to enact in which they are lords of the world, they will act like lords of the world. And given a story in which the world is foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.” We’re all on that beach, we just need to hear better stories.
Caroline, this is a rich post and I’ve read it twice already. I teach and practice The Happy Body, developed by the Gregoreks who introduced me to the difference between exercise and training. The former is entertainment, but training is training. And here’s to Tonic Youth!
This is so good. I was mentally highlighting and commenting ("yes!" "this!") on so many sentences when I realized I just need to bookmark this whole post. Thank you for this gift.
"mass semi-automated precision-targeted complete dehumanisation vendettas..."
Brilliant. As is the rest of it. :)
Caroline, Beautiful work - both the words and the art. D
I agree, I think many of us tend to wait for the perfect conditions to obtain or the perfect mood to settle on us before beginning something, when the activity itself will provide the transformation,
something I conquered with regard to exercise long ago, but find harder with writing!
I really like the buckskin pieces
This requires digesting. A change in us is a change in the world is what I will sit with today. Thank you for lighting a path.
I happened upon a few lines from a weel kent book, Ishmael, that I thought somewhat relevant. Maybe just to life if not your article! “There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, they will live at odds of the world. Given a story to enact in which they are lords of the world, they will act like lords of the world. And given a story in which the world is foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.” We’re all on that beach, we just need to hear better stories.
Caroline, this is a rich post and I’ve read it twice already. I teach and practice The Happy Body, developed by the Gregoreks who introduced me to the difference between exercise and training. The former is entertainment, but training is training. And here’s to Tonic Youth!
This is so good. I was mentally highlighting and commenting ("yes!" "this!") on so many sentences when I realized I just need to bookmark this whole post. Thank you for this gift.