What Use Are Flowers?
how not to make a sensible living of any sort
I am so pleased to say that I’ve found it: the thing that gives me such great joy!
And its name is Art.
It’s the pleasure in painting, photography, sketching, image making, the imagining of futures and so much that I am yet to discover that I can do.
And all it took to find it, was a few recent chance encounters with artistic types, as well as some plentiful soul searching , meditation , and a whole lot of do nothing.
Be still.
And try not to listen to any of the usual noise about accomplishment on planet earth, what mother wants you to do, what the well-to-do neighbor is doing but you are not, plus a laundry list of media microaggressions cloaked as perfect suggestions on how to live well in 5 ways, how to deliver wonderful stuff in 10 days, how to be the best whomever in consistent measure, and most importantly how to absolutely know that you haven’t measured up (as yet) to all those who are doing so very well for themselves. Or so it seems.
