Please read the list of words, phrases and beginnings of sentences. After you read them:
- You may pick up any word or phrase and write connotations, synonyms, thoughts, ideas or any iconic phrase that includes the word.
- You may complete the sentences, each one more than once (as many times as you can).
- You may write your own list in respond to mine.
- You may respond to anything written below, from a sentence to a word to a single letter, in any way you see fit.
origin
original
my origin is...
beginning
to begin something is...
I've just begun...
an original is...
an original person is...
in the beginning was the word/the verb
in the beginning was...
in my beginning there was... I was...
everything is original/everything is copied
I am the origin of...
when I begin, I...
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BEGINNING....
ReplyDeleteEVERY CRACK IS ALSO AN OPENING.
WHEN FACED WITH GRET CHANGE IN SELF, IN RELATIONSHIP, IN OUR SENSE OF CALLING WE SOMEHOW MUST TAKE IN ALL THAT HAS ENCLOSED US, NURTURED US, INCUBATED US, SO WHEN THE NEW LIFE IS UPON US, THE OLD IS WITHIN US.
AS THE CHICK WRIGGLES THROUGH THE CRACKS, IT BEGNS TO EAT ITS SHELL. IN THAT MOMENT GROWING BUT FRAGILE, STARVING AND CRAMPED, ITS WORLD BREAKING, THE CHICK MUST FEEL LIKE IT IS DYING. YET, ONCE EVERYTHING IT HAS RELIED ON FALLS AWAY, THE CHICK IS BORN.
IT DOESN'T DIE, BUT FALLS INTO THE WORLD.
WHEN IN THE MIDST OF GREAT CHANGE, IT IS HELPFUL TO REMEMBER HOW A CHICK IS BORN. FROM THE VIEW OF THE CHICK, IT IS A TERRIFYING STRUGGLE. CONFINED AND CURLED IN A DARK SHELL, HALF-FORMED, THE CHICK EATS ALL ITS FOOD AND STRETCHES TO THE CONTOURS OF ITS SHELL. IT BEGINS TO FEEL HUNGRY AND CRAMPED. EVENTUALLY, THE CHICK BEGINS TO STARVE AND FEELS SUFFOCATED BY THE EVER-SHRINKING SPACE OF ITS WORLD.
ReplyDeleteTHE CHICK BEIN BORN
MARK NEPO
When I begin I search for answers...I find it difficult to let go of control and live in the unknown...so I BEGIN BY reading these words of wisdom..
ReplyDeleteI beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers now because you won't be able to live them and the point is to LIVE EVERYTHING. Live the questions now and then someday, far in the future, gradually, without ever noticing it you''ll live your way into the answer!!!
Rilke
Originality-- does that exist? That is pressure I do not need.
ReplyDeleteI embrace the riff, the sample, the growth, the offshoot, the inspiration, the ancestors, the last in the series, that thing that other person said that one time, the reminder, the thing that reminded me, the association, the continuation, the further exploration.
Don't get me wrong; I understand that we want to be fresh, interesting, striking. I sigh and roll my eyes when I see or experience art that to me is done-to-death, cliche, overdone, etc.
But I am happy to admit and acknowledge the artists, ideas, movements, works, texts, and details that came before me. We're all in the river together.
But the pressure to be wholly original and entirely unique...it is an honor I dream not of.
love, kat