Comments on: Needed: Word Bridges

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:15:51 +0000

Or I think maybe more than 2 cents, Steve! Breaking down the challenges into do-able steps clearly helps. For me, the great challenge is translating what is in my head into an understandable language!

Thanks so much for stopping by and sharing here.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:40:00 +0000

People fear challenges due to the threshold they set up for themselves anything over that becomes too big and would stretch them too far… however if a major challenge is broken down in to smaller “bits” and you work your way up to a challenge then you have some hope of getting there and making it happen.

Just my two cents!

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:54:22 +0000

I think you are right. It is a matter of taking the time to allow it all to steep and blend itself together. You always have wise words to share! Thank You!

By: San

San — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:44:57 +0000

Keep whirling, dervish. The words will blend together, like tea leaves, steeped. Then slow down, sit down, and sip.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:37:30 +0000

You have given voice to the experience of many. Education, sadly, is more about business than the expansion of minds.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:35:02 +0000

We all have our messages. Some of us have to share them because that is why we are here. Others of us have to keep them silent because we are fearful of the judges. I think those who have chosen to keep them silent have come across far too many who hammer away because they cannot just accept we all have our place in our own ways.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:31:37 +0000

It is interesting to consider being taught fear in school. In some cases that is true, but I also think parents have or can be a great factor in teaching fear. If a parent is fearful, I am sure a child will learn it quickly.

I think there can be a fine line between intuition and fear, but when you know yourself well and trust yourself the intuition comes naturally. You have to be able to go to that core of your being, though.

Interest is far more motivational that grades. I know my adult children now have a need to satisfy themselves rather than meet the parameters set up by others. They have proven to be wonderful academics to this point, I might add.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:27:38 +0000

Thank you so much for not only visiting me, but for sharing these lovely insights. I love the idea of contemplating what you would paint on your door. I am not sure, but will be exploring that question in more depth as the weeks go by.

That is interesting about the rule about not making your art work black. So many people use black in their art because it is a powerful emotive tool! Mmmm…

The analogy of the cicada is great. I like the idea of working off my shell to get to the real part of me. I believe that and it takes a great deal of work. I feel the most challenging things in life are the most rewarding and I suppose this business of stepping away from the safety zone is one of those challenges, because I feel as though I am learning to fly.

Thanks for sharing these great insights!

By: Quilt Architect

Quilt Architect — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:20:57 +0000

“Without realizing it, one might come to see boredom as the root of all evil, and the artist who can deliver us from dullness as a kind of priest who brings us absolution through beauty and transcendence through self-forgetting.”

I have been thinking about this boredom and wondered if that is not what school teaches best. I mean it is boring to have facts placed in our head in abstract ways that have not apparent meaning except in the “future”. To have our time and thoughts broken up by bells. To have our interest disregarded for the goals of authority, the priest of schools that cannot be question or reproofed just as in midevil times.In the mean time video game, cartoons, advertising can easily attract our children, because they have not learned how to manage their time, minds, creativity, …they have had that managed for them…even to the point of getting doctors to prescribe pills to control behavior….of the brightest kids in my opinion…that do not do well in boring settings….thus the need to dope them.

How do children learn…I think one day the historians will look back on this with a very grim report.

By: Quilt Architect

Quilt Architect — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:04:02 +0000

“as an artist, it seems so much fear is based on your work being liked or not”

I think the fear is that it our art is a part of our likes and dislikes and thus a part of the soul…now we put our soul on the chopping block for people to hack up and to pick apart and perhaps most likely to misunderstand us…or to see the sides we wish weren’t there. For our soul is both the light and the dark. And if something has really been said it has been said through us and it is that that bleeds.