There’s something about being an artist or a choreographer that’s akin being a writer. It’s the experience of doing the work and the learning that comes from it. A person gets to understand how parts together work differently than they do alone. It’s learning that the spaces and the empty bits add importance to the message.
There’s something about being a person that’s akin to being all of them. It’s the experience of learning that being with people is different than being alone. It’s learning that the spaces when we remove ourselves can add vibrancy and color to the times when we return.
This time of year many folks see the trees filled with color and don’t bother to see the leaves. Some folks see the leaves and never look at the trees they fall from.
To feel whole, we really need both to use our whole mind, to see the whole picture, to get the full meaning.
Spend time in the company of trees as well as walking through the forest.
How do make sure you’re putting all of the meaning in and getting all of the meaning out of what you’re doing?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!
Sometimes it’s so hard to appreciate the forest and the trees when you’re walking blind through them– then you have to stop and learn other ways to appreciate it all.
For me, it’s the time of the year to stop, slow down, and take it all in.
Hi Karen,
It’s the stopping to take it all in — not just the information but also the people who are delivering it and the people the information will affect — that makes broader, deeper, and more whole.
The more we are, the more we have to give. The more we have to give, the more room we can make to receive. 🙂
The challenge is the challenge…Often I get caught up in the tasks of the immediate and loose the broader scope. Perhaps the greatest thing that novels have taught me is that I too can have many perspectives of my life and within my life as the life stream unfolds. If I sense that the laser beam of focus is burning to intensely, the richness of experience diminishes…None the less, it is through the determination which you have highlighted in your work, that I’m able to move on down the road.
Hi Richard,
What you describe is what I think of as the dynamic tension that makes for art or an artful life — part structure and part expression, each pulling and pushing at the other.
You said it beautifully. 🙂
It’s true that you look at the leaves rather than the trees but that’s because, if like me you’ve lived in the same area for several years you know the trees.
The leaves are the thing that’s changing so that’s the thing that’s interesting to watch. i think it’s like the social media autumn, and i’ve just found a blog post.
Thank you 🙂
I like this post and the picture too. I’m in a kind of blogging pause thinking about the meaning of it so your last question struck me.
Sorry, I can’t add to the discussion I just felt the need to share:)
Thank you for this beautiful post and enjoy the last few days of the most rapidly changing season in the year,
Keren
Hi Keren,
Thank you for taking that moment to write a few words. That pause you’re taking might be just the way to find more meaning in what you’re doing. Stopping is the only way I know to really get a new start. 🙂