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dullyhump a and other villagers,
is not every breath we breathe an act of
creation? are we really the same creature, is it the same world from
one second to the next? tis a remarkable age to live in when we can be
aware of tremendous movement in
civil/international/artistic/criminal/debase/economic/emotional.....endeavours
in every sphere imaginable - is history a reality or as I understand
it - it's all happening simultaneously
this week i've been reading Sole Woyinka, an
eloquent and articulate Nigerian writer who makes explicitly clear the political
and international events that have formed Nigeria. He writes with such biting
mockery of these events and at the same time with reverence to detail of all the
surrounding tangible and emotional landscape - it fills me with the awe of
being alive.
i'm on holidays so have had the luxury of dwelling
on this and many other stories that are so available to me - on Radio National -
an ABC radio station this week, there has been a serialised version of
'Australians under Nippon' - various accounts of how Australians survived in
various 'detention' camps during second World War. Again these remarkable,
harrowing, heartwrenching stories highlight our humanity - that something that
sometimes sends us mad or to death and terrible suffering but also sometimes to
important insights about our inner life when all else has been denied us.
Some people were able to train their memories, some conducted classes, some
developed strategies of sharing rather than bartering and trade, most wanted to
live despite the conditions.
I visited an old lady (she is about 85yrs
old) in the evening and asked her if she had listened to this particular
version, as I know she listens to this radio station a lot. She said yes,
she had and then proceeded to tell me anguished stories of her own recollections
of meeting her compatriots and friends coming back at various times, and
reunions and her pained inability to ask about their experiences. She
relived her pain with me the other night as she realised her emotional
illiteracy at the time to connect with her friends. Today, on the eve
of more global madness/revenge/blindness (apologies to 'the blind') we have
the opportunity to become emotionally literate, is this not an act of creation
also?
andrea, i love your poem and i apologise for the
challenge. i missed an opportunity to continue the creation of
tea...
hump bump
sump (car sump) mumps gumps
gumption sumptuous
unctious fractious
cautious dormant sorbet
morbid frigid rigid
rich poor
door sore fore
more bore law for
some for whom? for what?
whatfor? q queue
u you ewe
blue caw (I hear them outside -
crows) rows
enough! basta!
(sorry to the deaf for the focus on sound
play)
is being creative a pressure?
preachypam
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 11:50
PM
Subject: Re: new villagewell topic for
january
hi pammo,
is me
dullyhump a.
with no idea
was the hump
than just another bump
I am excused
as my
english is fused
with my mothertongue's innoncene
of making
sense
in english
dinglish
finglish
how nice to be funnily
named
so my fear be tamed
to create again
when? ....
(thas
really a rap...)
pammo, I was bluffing, don't have health nor
money to come over to Australia, but enjoy the virtual meetings ... and
feeling shy about being so public with nothing really, feeling like I should
be coming out with some "clever" research questions (so people can actually
participate) ... and not just my good old painter identity trying
out poetry and having fun, ....may be it is just fine like that.
warmly
andrea
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Von: "Pam Danson"
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An: "Andrea Courvoisier"
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Betreff: Re: new villagewell topic
for january
Datum: Die, 21. Jan 2003 2:07 Uhr
andreadullyhump,
hi there! are other people reading
this???
andrea -
what does the 'hump' mean?
and you ask "when can i come" - so i challenge you "But will you
come??"
my secret dreams - to travel to a different country every year
and stay,live and work there for 6 months for the rest of my
life!
and to
dance
and to learn
Italian
and to
follow more carefully my momentary states and
impulses
and to
accept everything i don't do
do the raging fires in Canberra mean that we as a
society generally need to pick up our fiery natures
more?
pammo
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrea
Courvoisier <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: villagewell <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:58
PM
Subject: Re: new villagewell topic for
january
paminspired,
although a process,
and a possible
birthing one,
I know
it definitely failed,
here is
andreadully
when can I come?
***
oh it is fun to write! -
I got inspired a few days ago by Julia Cameron newest book called
"Walking in this world" (practical strategies for creativity). In one
chapter she talks about becoming larger, redrawing the boundaries within
which we live, gives exercises to get in touch with our dreams about
ourselves and our talents, ... something like: fill in the missing words
-- 1. If I let myself admit it, I think I have a secret gift for ______
.... then talked about herself having been a writer for so long and
suddenly she started to compose music (people thought she is gone
bazooka).... then I thought, wow ... that's wild, yeah, I mean I am
drawing and painting now, but what else could I do? ... I think I could be
a wild performer, actress or something like that ... uiuiui ... I said it
:-)
what about you pam and other readers of these mails, how about
your secret dreams????
warmly and curiously
andreadullyhump
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Von: "Pam Danson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An:
"Andrea Courvoisier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Betreff:
Re: new villagewell topic for january
Datum: Mon, 20. Jan 2003 0:05
Uhr
andreadully,
just stay with it
be patient
very patient
it's a
process
it too is possibly a birthing process
maybe something
completely new
but if that fails
come and have tea
i've got
some home picked
rose hips
or home grown lemon grass
it's
forecast to be 35 degrees today
so come for a swim
in our pool
made of sandstone
my little mud brick cottage
keeps nice and
cool
and I'm here!
inspired.
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrea
Courvoisier <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: villagewell <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 3:57
AM
Subject: Re: new villagewell topic for january
hi
pam,
uuuhhh yes, how wonderful to hear about your excitement and
inspiration,
yeah
what a birthing ground of creativity,
I
feel like having tea with you,
feel rather
dull...
andreadully
HI
FOLKS,
and
is there a connection between inspiration and
creativity?
tonight i feel inspired and excited... i actually typed
exciting and then corrected it so i think i wanna say "i'M
EXCITING':""
EHWEHHHEEEEEE::))
AND i wanna hang onto it, because often i
have an insight or feel inspired (are these words from the same
root?) and then it gradually fades and i lose 'sight' of it and have
to refind it in another form at some later
date.
i
don't have tv where i live so tonight was one of those nights where
i dropped in on a friend and we ended up watching a doco about
Becket who wrote "Waiting for Godot" - i feel inspired by other's
creativity and the honoring of that creativity and that inspires me
to b ecome creative!
dunno what will come of it on this occasion - just felt
like sharing my excitement and enthusiasm for this amazing
world.
pam.
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrea
Courvoisier <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: villagewell <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 12:02
AM
Subject: Re: new villagewell topic for
january
Dear Susan and dear Pam,
so nice to hear from
you both and your personal experiences!
Susan, interesting,
it is very similar for me, often for a longer time nothing is
happening as I try to intend to do something and then suddenly as
I allow myself to fool around, play around, allow mistakes ...
yes then magic things happen. - I have a lot of toys in my
art studio for me to play around with ..., ... but I have to deal
with my grown up mind every time who is serious and wants to
create something in a certain way, always a challenge.
Pam,
so good to hear about your funny deaf refugees, made me want to
join you all! - and how you describe your interpreting into sign
language-creativity! the spontaneity in it which doesnt give you
much time to think ... and you get feedback right away! - Yeah
somtimes I wish that, ... so I am trying to find a "victim" on the
same day to show the drawing or painting to .... - I was very
touched by your poem, thank you!! -
Creativity, the banana
and the things you love, truly love, ... I am currently extremely
into ... (but having trouble to find playmates
..)
icehockey for ever
flying and flying and hitting
and
sweating and laughing
is there anything better? next
tuesday?
you think I am 21?
I am gonna be
four-teee!!!
warm thoughts from
andrea
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Von:
"Susan Locke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Betreff:
Re: new villagewell topic for january
Datum: Sam, 18. Jan 2003
4:27 Uhr
Dear Andrea and Village Well
members
Thank you for posing
this topic Andrea. I'm loving this every month a new topic and
swimming through the different thoughts and feelings coming up
each month bringing me to new thinkings and
feelings.
.... i kind of always
have this weird experience if I'm doing anything creative in my
digital image/design work. If I try to intentionally do anything
it seems not to work; but when I play with images I make lots of
mistakes and in that some magic things happen. For me maybe
that's my version of typewriting on a banana.
... i'm thinking of how
"mistake making" enables for me a slip into dreaming - enables
letting go of rules, what i'm supposed to do .... i'm thinking
how the subject of my gaze might be flirting with me to see if I
am awake to see, as you say, a line or form to emerge for a
split second and see if i am awake to see it in that flirt. how
do those images, sounds, feelings, etc flirt around us seeing
what we will pick up, asking us to drop our identity and enter
into the state of the subject without any "intent" of
interpretation from the CR world.
thinking about how you are doing there Andrea. I'm just
playing around in the edges of creativity and am grateful for
the artists in the world that guide me into new ways of seeing
.... many times I think out of deep of painful feelings making
their gift of seeing such a deep experience ... so yes i'm
interested in how people think about this topic around altered
states, creativity and fear.
wonder how your poem went ....
Warmest
wishes
Susan
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Original Message -----
From:
Pam Danson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 17 January, 2003 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: new
villagewell topic for january
andrea,
hi
an open ended
clever research topic!
cool
does
'talking about music', dancing about architecture and typewriting on a banana
- are they representations of a concept that says this has absolutely nothing
to do with that? and can never...
and a completely separate question - is creativity the
experience whenever i leave the known?
and there are
degrees...
pam
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From: Franc Chamberlain <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 6:53 AM
Subject: Re:
new villagewell topic for
january
Great!
love
Franc
on 16/1/03 5:24 pm,
Andrea Courvoisier at [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
New Village-Well topic for January called: "Typewriting on a
Banana"¨
Hi Village-Well fans,
this is Andrea from
Swizerland/Denmark,
yesterday I was trying to think about some clever
research question about creativity without much success. As it got late
and I watched a movie, I got help from one of the main characters who in
order to make her point said in a conversation:
Talking about music
is like dancing about architecture ... well, I thought:
Talking
about creativity is like typewriting on a banana, hihi....
I am an
artist and I would like to talk about "typewriting on a banana".
I am immersed a lot these days in drawing and painting in my
art studio and I feel a bit blanc in my brain and yet I want to typewrite
on a banana -- talk about creativit with you. - I will ramble a bit about
my experiences and thoughts and I am looking forward to hear about your
thoughts, questions, ramblings and imputs.
One of the biggest
things for me about creativity is the in my opinion the much needed talent
to be with your own fears, to just bear them and bear yourself and wait.
- It is the fear of the unknown it seems to me, of the yet unborn I
think, ... creating the challenge to let loose from a known frame, ... it
takes awareness of my fears, from extremely subtle to strong fears. - To
hold the fear in the knowing would Eckhart Tolle say, just noticing,
acknowleging... and yet be open for flickers and flirts that might lead me
to a form, a line, a color .... - Being present with what is, being
present with the fears around what is, .... what a fascinating training
that is for me, so wonderful and frightening and challenging, each time
anew.
What do I wanna know about creativity? - creativity seems
like waking up in the morning and remembering a bizarre dream, - bum - ,
something moving in, from god knows where. I feel in awe about it, don't
find questions ...
There is something about the alteredness I enjoy
in being creative. Being taken out of a habitual way of perceiving. - How
do altered states, fear and creativity connect? I ask cause I feel really
altered right now, tired, spaced out, listening to odd sounds of the
heating system, and I just imagined to follow that alteredness, dive into
these odd perceptions and write a poem .....
I am looking forward
to your thoughts and ideas!
much
love
andrea
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