Christie and Rosemerry converse on creative practice as nourishment, empowerment, connection, vision
Mantra: "Keeping to the Center, comatose; Keeping to the Center, not comatose." (One hypostatic manifestation of the Center being: https://neoscenes.net/blog/category/project/center-of-the-universe
The Ninth (Duino) Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke:
Why, if this interval of being can be spent serenely
in the form of a laurel, slightly darker than all
other green, with tiny waves on the edges
of every leaf (like the smile of a breeze)—: why then
have to be human—and, escaping from fate,
keep longing for fate? …
[etc.]
Rainer Maria Rilke. “The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke.” (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
Thanks, Dr. J! what a fabulous quote from Rilke--a poem which I haven't spent much time with and now will read again and again, thank you!
Thanks for the link to God is Bread. Made me laugh out loud. And I woke up my sleeping dog too! (Wait, it that a metaphor? 🤔)
Song: Vincent.
“And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now”
yesssssss ... that song. it gets me every time.
Mantra: "Keeping to the Center, comatose; Keeping to the Center, not comatose." (One hypostatic manifestation of the Center being: https://neoscenes.net/blog/category/project/center-of-the-universe
The Ninth (Duino) Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke:
Why, if this interval of being can be spent serenely
in the form of a laurel, slightly darker than all
other green, with tiny waves on the edges
of every leaf (like the smile of a breeze)—: why then
have to be human—and, escaping from fate,
keep longing for fate? …
[etc.]
Rainer Maria Rilke. “The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke.” (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
Thanks, Dr. J! what a fabulous quote from Rilke--a poem which I haven't spent much time with and now will read again and again, thank you!
Thanks for the link to God is Bread. Made me laugh out loud. And I woke up my sleeping dog too! (Wait, it that a metaphor? 🤔)
Song: Vincent.
“And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now”
yesssssss ... that song. it gets me every time.