I always think back on the pure, unbridled flow of creativity I experienced as a kid. You think it’s just how things are always going to be and it calcifies so easily as we get older if we don’t remember to stretch those “muscles” and assure ourselves if we’ve done it before, we can do it again.
My favorite line in this one: “the world would look like held in hand if not so tough on every man”
I remember reading funk backwards at moms and it being quite possibly my first ever interaction with abstract poetry. I think I thought something like, “How is Samuel even allowed to write this?”.
Simply beautiful. Thank you. Yes, yes and yes!. My kyudo sensei always reminds us of reverting to the state of the "beginners mind" when we let the arrow abandon the bow...that releasing of the arrow has a long, long "ancestry"...
"Indeed, the abstract, ecstatic playfulness of “Funk Backwards” is a timely reminder to reconnect with that peculiarly primordial, “childish”" wisdom that comes when we create for the sake of creating, without hope or despair for an audience—without overthinking it." - This is what I'm talking about! Bookmarking Part 2. I have to catch a Zoom plane to Paris in 10 minutes.
I always think back on the pure, unbridled flow of creativity I experienced as a kid. You think it’s just how things are always going to be and it calcifies so easily as we get older if we don’t remember to stretch those “muscles” and assure ourselves if we’ve done it before, we can do it again.
My favorite line in this one: “the world would look like held in hand if not so tough on every man”
I remember reading funk backwards at moms and it being quite possibly my first ever interaction with abstract poetry. I think I thought something like, “How is Samuel even allowed to write this?”.
Simply beautiful. Thank you. Yes, yes and yes!. My kyudo sensei always reminds us of reverting to the state of the "beginners mind" when we let the arrow abandon the bow...that releasing of the arrow has a long, long "ancestry"...
"Indeed, the abstract, ecstatic playfulness of “Funk Backwards” is a timely reminder to reconnect with that peculiarly primordial, “childish”" wisdom that comes when we create for the sake of creating, without hope or despair for an audience—without overthinking it." - This is what I'm talking about! Bookmarking Part 2. I have to catch a Zoom plane to Paris in 10 minutes.