Digging Deeper And Going Further
Our environment whether natural or built, eases, and inspires by way of intuition, our pull toward the beauty of nature and the hand-created. To build a better life is to be more attuned to our natural tendencies and self-regulation, buffering the social dogmas that are counterintuitive to who we are and desire to become. It is with nature and beauty we are inspired to be who we are, digging deeper and going further.
Beauty And Nature
We are biologically attuned to nature and continue to build our world within it, while simultaneously trying to save it.
A Deeper And Wider View
Art, no matter the category is both mirror and window, a storyteller of our human experience, bringing joy and ease, or offering a door to resolve. Through the creative endeavor, be it a chair or painting, we experience beauty, an opportunity to be present within the complexities of living. A deeper and wider view.
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
Virginia Woolf
Change And Beauty
By being present to beauty we see who we are, our natural way of being, and inclination toward change, despite the ego’s struggle for sameness and safety. Through the equanimity of beauty we are made aware of life’s pendulum, where we’ve been and where we’re going, as we see where we are. The splendor of nature and the hand created.
“invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
don't swim in the same slough.
invent yourself and then reinvent yourself and
stay out of the clutches of mediocrity.
invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
change your tone and shape so often that they can never categorize you.
reinvigorate yourself and
accept what is
but only on the terms that you have invented
and reinvented.
be self-taught.
and reinvent your life because you must;
it is your life and
its history
and the present
belong only to
you.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned