WELL!! It's about lying around, laughing, and doing absolutely nothing but making art and deciding what to eat or where to look next! It inspires living in the moment , which is what we aspire to but it feels as if it saps the body and mind of intention and drive.This is the scary part. We SAY we want more time to ourselves and relaxation (there are thousands of books, classes, blogspots and instructions on how to achieve this state of being) but in fact we don't know what to DO with the unknown, unstructured time. It takes practice to be a human being and not a human doing. I am practicing and hope you give yourself a break today and try 5 minutes of just that...BEING...not doing.
I like your statement "it takes practice to be a human being instead of a human doing"...I know full well the double-edged sword of trying to fill space with things to do, things to see, things to buy. I suppose art is just another one of those space fillers -- yet at heart the process of making art is much like swimming in water. Even if it's cold, warm, rough, smooth, you are still swimming for the sheer pleasure of it. Keep blogging, Mary, good thoughts indeed!
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