Beloved writers - we are in the final days of And Now You Write 2010. It is our final Friday!
Update on Saturday: I reviewed the recording we made yesterday. The earliest part of the sharing is several of us talking about my daughter's health. This is what happens in writing community - when life shows up we support one another. Bear with those moments before we get into writing itself (or fast forward through it!)
Listen to today's audio:
Our quote today will be from Rainer Rilke, one of the men I have a deep love affair with who has been long gone from this planet. Here is what he wrote:
"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now."
Today we are each going to become more intimate with a question,perhaps that has been perplexing us or bothering us or just tugging at our psyche over time.
We are going to be using paper and pencil, not keyboard, so please gather paper and pencil or pen before we begin.
Our lesson begins today with musing with Rainer Rilke: I am not a trained visual artist, but my skills have improved because I let myself play and discover every week at the Art and Spirituality Center. I have learned to leap into my creative process without attachment. Because I am not a trained painter, I think it helps me when I decide to have, for example, a conversation with God about a question I am struggling with I don't get concerned with composition or any technical skills or anything like that - I am just painting. Wednesday I did my usual thing: I headed off to the Art and Spirituality Center at Mercy Hospital. My only intention when I left my house was to paint. God and I had been having a conversation that morning about where I am living. My heart is being tugged East yet I find myself continuing to walk around in that vast desert marked "How." I wondered if painting the question might help me to figure it out, to get clarity, to find the "just right path to whatever the heck I was supposed to do." I was in this space head-looking-at-my-feet curiosity when I arrived at the door to the Art and Spirituality Center. "What to do, what to do, the how's never seem to make sense or even appear." I heard "Love the questions like locked doors or words in foreign languages..." I grumbled in my silent mind until I came toe-to-toe with the door, which was closed. Initially I grunted. "What?! It is Wednesday. This is where I am supposed to be, each Wednesday, and I made a point to get here early and I..." lifted my head high enough to read the sign there which read, "Come on in, the door is open." I laughed and looked up toward heaven. "Very funny, oh... you are so funny." I had been fumbling around in the how rather than getting intimate with the question. I chose to become intimate with the question. Listen to the audio to hear what ensued. "Am I willing to be afraid, to be vulnerable, to say yes to the unknown?"
"What is safe about inviting more loss into my life?"
Today we will contour draw before we write:
Look at something in front of you.
Pick up your pencil or pen and begin to draw it without taking your pen or pencil off the page.
Do not look at the drawing.
As you draw, hold the question you want to become more intimate with in your heart.
This is what I drew:
Add a link to any blog entries you write which relate back to our writing prompts. We would love to read your words.
You really make it seem so easy with your presentation but I find this matter to be actually something that I think I would never understand. It seems too complex and very broad for me. I am looking forward for your next post, I’ll try to get the hang of it!
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Posted by: learn piano online | 11/14/2013 at 11:35 AM