I believe truth is the foundation of our creative and spiritual life- emotional truth in many cases but also cultural truth. We do not live in a vacuum; we create within the culture we inhabit. So if the culture we inhabit is riddled with half-truths and obfuscation, where does that affect what we create? How we create?
Please read this as an example, to me, of how, as a culture, we continue move away from the truth and into splitting finer and finer hairs. Try to read this not as a politics or choosing sides, but as a creative person. Then tell me how these affects you, if at all. I don’t know the answer, I’m just really curious.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Elizabeth M. Marshall Nov 12, 2005
Smoke and Mirrors
2 Paulita Nov 12, 2005
When I become aware of the half-truths operating in our society and the inability(?)/unwillingness(?) to come to a consensual reality, I want to hide. I don’t want to create, or engage. I want to disconnect, go numb, check out. I feel myself carefully reinforcing the internal compartmentalization which allows me to function in the world, albeit in a less than integrated, less than whole state.
3 Julie Jordan Scott Nov 13, 2005
Beloved Jennifer,
Reading information like this reminds me of my call. It beckons me to truth – it says to me “Your work is far more important than you might have imagined before you read this.”
Artists have always been catalysts and change-makers. The Renaissance came from whom? Artists and their patrons. Not politicians.
Right now I am in the throes of Directing “Miracle on 34th Street” for the Spotlight Theatre here in Bakersfield. We open on December 1. One night I had my cast and crew walk around the room and look one another in the eyes and say “You are a miracle.”
I asked them, “How long has it been since someone looked in your eyes and called YOU a miracle?” I asked.
On the other hand, how often are we bombarded with a media brigade of negativity?
Sometimes I feel like I am a one woman miracle-passionfire-creativity-machine and each person whose heartbeat synchs up with mine adds to the collective wonder for the world. I know we are impacting the planet… so that is where I choose to focus.
I love your blog, dear one, and look forward to visiting regularly.
With Passionate Gratitude,
Julie Jordan Scott
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4 cindy Nov 13, 2005
given that in the entire world the rich are getting richer and the poor getting poorer based on insidious greed, i made the choice long ago to “think globally, and act locally”. (altho i hate over used slogans)
in other words, in my own corner of the world i try to “overcome evil with good”.
i dont believe our human hearts could contain the atrocities that we humans commit against one another. at some point we have to shut down to it.
so what can we do? we continue to think positive, touch others hearts with love and be loved.