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Hi Karen,
I started to respond to this as soon as I read it but got
caught up in stuff around here. I so appreciate your sharing. It always feels so
good to know these very important things about each other.
Do you think it might be productive for us to play around with
ideas about how to incorporate this feeling into the socialization process and
the educational process in general?
Selma
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Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 8:52
PM
Subject: RE: Fw: [Futurework] The world
of work
Selma, in response to
your request for sharing, I have found working in the garden and cooking to be
fulfilling and relaxing activities that help me clear the mind while at the
same time learning a great deal about living in the work being
done.
Cooking for family is often work, but is also a joy, giving of
oneself to others. As the daily burden of feeding growing children
receded, I have enjoyed cooking more as a form of learning and
discovery.
The garden is a wonderful lesson about life and especially
parenting, as I've written before. It requires discipline, commitment,
long range planning and vision, humor and the ability to cope with failure,
plus the essential concept of utility wedded with beauty. Those of us
who garden are considerably saner in this changing world, if not weary, in my
opinion.
Additionally, I found needlework very satisfying when I was
younger. The intensity of the task and the concentration were good
mental health exercises, and medical science substantiates this as good to
combat aging, or a lazy mind. Perhaps I will someday return to my large
basket of unfinished projects. However, the larger point I would like
to make about folk art and domestic crafts is that we have too often demeaned
them in our pursuit of higher art _expression_, and we were foolish to have done
so.
Arthur
wrote: Sometimes one loses
the constant inner chatter and is at one with the
> project at
hand. Ironing, writing, downhill skiing, whatever. It is
the
> fact of integration that is important.
>
> Most times
in our lives we are doing one thing partially and thinking of
> what
else we should be doing, etc. There is a constant inner
chatter.
When
> it goes away there is "unself conscious
behaviour" ....Behaviour without
> doubt.
>
> So I am
with you Selma. I too experience these moments of integration
and
> in the same sorts of activities.
>
> Yes, this male
irons, cooks and also writes.
>
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