I am heartened to hear you are back to your real work. I will enjoy reading what your lost nun reveals to you about the secrets in the roots of the trees of the forest.
I am guessing you may have been influenced by Joseph Campbell and by Jung’s idea that artists sometime reincarnate, from the inherited collective unconscious, spirits needed in the collective consciousness.
We would be poorer if Le Guin had not brought us Odo climbing her last steps; more cowardly if Solzhenitsyn had not showed imprisoned Ivan Shukov smuggling in a useful piece of metal; more seducible by Big Brother if Orwell had not let us live the story of Winston Smith; weaker if Maya Angelou had not modeled phenomenal women rising.
Dant’s journey through a dark wood was as a man midway through life’s journey. But yours is as a young girl - wide-eyed, self-freeing, with the keen open senses of youth. What a way to explore Jung’s jungle of the unconscious!
We were there. That was the evening Evan won the National Book Award. Have to say....a pretty good night.
A great night indeed.
I am heartened to hear you are back to your real work. I will enjoy reading what your lost nun reveals to you about the secrets in the roots of the trees of the forest.
I am guessing you may have been influenced by Joseph Campbell and by Jung’s idea that artists sometime reincarnate, from the inherited collective unconscious, spirits needed in the collective consciousness.
We would be poorer if Le Guin had not brought us Odo climbing her last steps; more cowardly if Solzhenitsyn had not showed imprisoned Ivan Shukov smuggling in a useful piece of metal; more seducible by Big Brother if Orwell had not let us live the story of Winston Smith; weaker if Maya Angelou had not modeled phenomenal women rising.
Bring us the nun.
Jock, of 112 South Hemlock Lane
Thanks, Jock. I will let you know what the girl tells me about the forest... she's not a nun, but a child who escapes imprisonment in a convent.
I am so grateful to know you, and to be the observer of a layer of your resplendent mind. Thank you for this uplift. —Dorothy Y
Thank you, Dorothy, for all your support of my work.
Inspiring even if I do not practice an art.
You do in your own way. Photographs, nature observations, art afficionado...
So well said - both you and Ursula le Guin. And I think you have answered your own doubts about the effects and worth of art!
Great!!
Ohhhh, a measure of calm in the tumult…thank you.
Dant’s journey through a dark wood was as a man midway through life’s journey. But yours is as a young girl - wide-eyed, self-freeing, with the keen open senses of youth. What a way to explore Jung’s jungle of the unconscious!
A great reminder for this hard week.
Thanks, Alice.