Marsha:
> And what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. :-)
SA: True, but I also think about how much I open my
writings to others in certain 'forums' due to I don't
want to get caught up in putting too much creative
effort into something and take it away from creative
pursuits that I want to finish in other ways. Thus,
the balancing act I mentioned. For instance, when I
was writing years ago, I disappeared from seeing
friends for what ended up being months. Then I was
finished, came out, and they all wondered where I'd
been. I didn't realize how much time had passed. It
takes quite a lot of energy to write, and I don't want
to stray too far from certain priorities. This has to
do with talking about writing, that I've mentioned to
you before, in which I felt talking about writing
wasn't doing the writing - thus, writing too much in
certain places isn't doing the writing in other
places. Writing is such a bone marrow experience for
me, much the same as walking in the woods. If I walk
too far without filling back up on creativity, where I
find to be sourced in experience, and thus, I don't
involve myself in enough in an overall experience of
events and begin to get trapped in intellectualizing
too much, then I've found out many years ago (before I
was on this forum) that my creativity dims. When that
happens then I must leave the pencil and paper for a
bit to get myself back into the overall experience of
life in general and then my spirit isn't as drained
and my creativity comes back again.
Marsha:
> I like your bridge musing. Very much! There a
> quiet kind of
> tension, a suspense, because I don't know what will
> happen next. It's interesting.
SA: Thank you Marsha for the compliment and feedback.
What I liked about the story was it wasn't just about
me. This is why I try to not discuss humans in my
stories at times to appeal and leave open a freedom
and thus, a space where anybody can inject their own
ways of understanding what might be in the story. I
find children stories to be fascinating in this
manner, such as 'Franklin' or 'Little Bear'. Children
stories are myth-like, if not myth all the way through
at times. A child's imagination can stir and stir and
stir watching such programs or reading such books. I
find the more I watch these cartoons or read certain
children's books with my son, and allow myself to
enter the story my imagination stirs, too. This is
what I like about Amerindian mythological/traditional
stories. These stories, as all myths of the world,
were spoken to all ages at the fire, and children
listened intently, and as they grew the stories grew
with them and as adults one could listen to these
stories and still find something worthwhile in them.
I might be able to read a story, such as the "bridge
musing", to a child and they could enjoy it, and yet,
I've tried to ground a thinking into the story that
might catch the attention of ones intellect, too. At
least, this is my effort with some events I write
about. I don't really know if my effort is coming
across this way yet.
Thanks for listening. I find talking to another
artist quite enjoyable about this kind of 'stuff', and
for some reason, I say this to you, as artist to
artist, thinking you know what I'm talking about - I
don't know - do you know what I mean?
night dark,
snow bright,
SA
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