This is beautiful, very evenhanded, and points toward the necessary and inevitable truth that we have to transcend the duality of good, bad, hero, villain that underlies our present mass consciousness.
“The old way believes in violence and domination as a way to get what you want; the new way believes that sustainability requires adherence to natural law—to balance, humility, creativity, to faith in human potential freed from fear and oppression." My favorite quote from today’s post, Janina! Although you have expressed more than once that you’re not sure what your blog is about, and I am struggling with the same question except I have yet to produce more than two pieces. I have decided that it is actually about “harvesting.” We’ve lived a good while, and our lives and our ideas and experiences have expanded and don’t seem to be in a process of contracting yet. And in my case, I am reluctant to go down just one path when I see so many still before me where there is gleaning to be done. So I welcome your diversity and what an amazing model you are for my own process.
Parenthetically, I was participating in a conference this morning from IONS, the Institute of noetic sciences, all about consciousness, and how science has too many limits to really go where it wants to go. And someone commented during one of the lectures, “dobedobedo”!
There is only one path for you to go down, Rondi. It's the mystery path of being led by your desires, intuition, what calls to you. It doesn't have a name.
That wasn't me who said dobedobedo, but I'm glad they said it!
This was a good piece, but I was sorry to see Richard III included as one of the bad guys. RIII was actually one of England’s better kings; the portrait of him painted by Shakespeare was way off the mark. It was in fact an example of the winners painting the losers as evil.
You might read Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time a really enjoyable walk through the true history. I can loan you a copy.
Thanks so much for this clarification. My use of R3 as a villain is definitely the fictional one, like Darth Vader…Shakespeare did his usual excellent job in creating that character. I probably should have stuck with real villains. There’s plenty of them…
Thank you for this thoughtful piece. I learned more from it than I did from the newspapers I struggle over each morning.
So fine, the idea that it is an artist's responsibility to "not know", to pay attention to the helpful messages "written across the skies."
Thanks, Linda. I really appreciate your kind words.
This is beautiful, very evenhanded, and points toward the necessary and inevitable truth that we have to transcend the duality of good, bad, hero, villain that underlies our present mass consciousness.
Thanks, sweetheart.
“The old way believes in violence and domination as a way to get what you want; the new way believes that sustainability requires adherence to natural law—to balance, humility, creativity, to faith in human potential freed from fear and oppression." My favorite quote from today’s post, Janina! Although you have expressed more than once that you’re not sure what your blog is about, and I am struggling with the same question except I have yet to produce more than two pieces. I have decided that it is actually about “harvesting.” We’ve lived a good while, and our lives and our ideas and experiences have expanded and don’t seem to be in a process of contracting yet. And in my case, I am reluctant to go down just one path when I see so many still before me where there is gleaning to be done. So I welcome your diversity and what an amazing model you are for my own process.
Parenthetically, I was participating in a conference this morning from IONS, the Institute of noetic sciences, all about consciousness, and how science has too many limits to really go where it wants to go. And someone commented during one of the lectures, “dobedobedo”!
Was that you?!
There is only one path for you to go down, Rondi. It's the mystery path of being led by your desires, intuition, what calls to you. It doesn't have a name.
That wasn't me who said dobedobedo, but I'm glad they said it!
Yes. I've always been that way too!
This was a good piece, but I was sorry to see Richard III included as one of the bad guys. RIII was actually one of England’s better kings; the portrait of him painted by Shakespeare was way off the mark. It was in fact an example of the winners painting the losers as evil.
You might read Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time a really enjoyable walk through the true history. I can loan you a copy.
Thanks so much for this clarification. My use of R3 as a villain is definitely the fictional one, like Darth Vader…Shakespeare did his usual excellent job in creating that character. I probably should have stuck with real villains. There’s plenty of them…