Bits from a notebook II

-Truth.  Knowledge.  Neither is withheld if we seek.

-To create is to worship.

To be human is to create. 

-Christians and artists give answers to questions that people don't realize they're asking.

God speaks. 

-How do we "lay ourselves down" in service while creating something that is uniquely from ourselves?  Maybe that IS what "laying ourselves down" is - giving an outpouring of what we have specifically inside of us.  Giving God a gift that can only come from me - my intellect, my reasoning, my imagination and creativity. 

-What constitutes "the good life"? 

-Observe. Interpret. Apply.

What? So what? Now what?

-I don't have all the answers

-As an artist, I record my world daily.  However, the most profound moments I have experienced by myself, with no pen in hand.  They are beyond word or image, incappable of reproduction.  I can tell you though, that they have always involved sunlight, wind, breath and a movement of the spirit.

- 1. Ask questions

  2. Listen

  3. Try to understand 

-Everybody sees things a little bit differently

-On an airplane, it's good to meet your neighbors

Other's Words:

-"in this net it's not just the strings that count

but also the air that escapes through the meshes" -Neruda

-"the truth that is truth is often paradox" -Tao Te Ching

-"If I forget you God, may my hands forget their skill." -psalms 137:1

-"Don't doubt in the dark what you have seen in the light." -student at Salt conference

-"I've been thirsty my whole life.  Never really known why." -Big Fish

-"Artists use lies to tell the truth." -V for Vendetta

-"There are no words to explain, no tongue, how when that player touches the strings, it is me playing and being played."  -Rumi