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To counter the retrograde and rot in this era of the Trumpian myopic, is to bolster the creative mind, that which cannot, nor should not, be constrained. It is the creative mind that has the power to create change, to start the ripple the future demands.
Creativity is the circumvention of government, the sole heir of freedom: resolve itself in pure form.
It is not that we are here to consume or to own, but to create and to love. This is innate, intrinsic to our well being and survival, what we are born with and eventually, leave with. To create and to love are the essentials, the necessities of do no harm, of what today needs and what our challenging tomorrow, demands. This is the meaning of to have and to hold, to nourish and to cherish: to live.
Douglas Sadownick and Time Miller “Buddy Systems” Performance Art
There is in fact no fine line in the direction forward, only loose threads, woven by the stories we tell as our time passes. Within each day is a memory we drag forward, tethered to each experience that proceeds it. It is these experiences, each, that builds the passage forward, though layered in a hashed mark gesture, forward, just the same. Seen from above life looks as if a tapestry, though up close, a haberdashery of bits, loosely knotted and tied. When I was a child, little made sense, a mashing of dyslexia and abuse, now being unknotted, as I thread anew.
Each day has its own experience, its own memory, held willingly or let go by way of dreams. Our days come as rituals, as we sleep and awake to the new. I am grateful to have each day, at this point I cannot imagine not having them come, not having the opportunity to see what yesterday has shown forward. This is what life gives us, each day a layer, a knotted thread to who we are as we stumble onward, weaving the stories we leave. This is who we are, knotted stories, till snipped or broken ended.
From the vantage point of yesterday, today has the honor of being guided, a prophesy that shines light for tomorrows living. To learn from each day passing, each view of beauty and fear of hurt, smoothes the future coming, lights the ongoing passage, for ourselves and those too, we love. As a friend once said, not easy but simple, we know who we are, and what it is we need.
We have within us the resources to ignite the future: to illuminate our paths forward. At this point in time we should know this and grasp our potential to build what’s possible and what’s needed, or more precisely what’s demanded from the challenging future. This is no easy task, one day at a time is all we have, as we live our lives and pay our bills. But life is truly beyond the structure of our daily routines, beyond the machine that keeps us lost: dulling our light. We are of the stars: of a bigger picture. Bigger than our bodies and time.
