SEEING WITH NEW EYES

Be forewarned, readers:  This is an experimental, spontaneous, and playful post, offered in the spirit of provoking thought about 

Expectations

Patterns

Conditioned Thinking

Conventions

and 

Preconceptions

that distort our vision, hamper our creativity, and limit our ability to experience the world in all of its glory.

SOMETIMES we need to break out of our preconceptions about -- 

THINGS

PEOPLE

ART

MONEY

SUCCESS

CULTURE

THE NATURE OF TIME AND SPACE

GOD

AND EVERYTHING ELSE

INCLUDING 

THE STRUCTURE OF BLOGS

SOMETIMES 

PERHAPS AT THIS VERY MOMENT

WE NEED TO OPEN OUR EYES TO NEW POSSIBILITIES  

BE

OPEN TO

NEW WAYS OF SEEING

NEW WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING

NEW SOUNDS -- NEW SMELLS -- NEW TASTES 
NEW IDEAS

Maybe we can avoid being as timid and reticent as T.S. Eliot's fearful character,
J. Alfred Prufrock,
who needs to ask:

"Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,

Have the strength to force the moment to a crisis?"

Perhaps we can always force the moment to a crisis
when necessary to advance


the honest
the true 
the compassionate
the authentic
the loving 
the beautiful
the creative
the peaceful

EVERYTHING IN CREATION IS DIVINE 

AND 

WORTHY OF OUR ATTENTION

"The real voyage of discovery consists in not seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." 
 Marcel Proust

"I SHUT MY EYES IN ORDER TO SEE."  PAUL GAUGUIN

                C

                A 

                N    

                

                W

                E

                 

                

                

CELEBRATE EVERYTHING?

Without labeling it,

fearing it?

"WHAT IS ART BUT A WAY OF SEEING?

                                Thomas Berger

I hope that this little posting will be fun for the reader because I have had great fun creating it.  I have been "playing around," of course, but isn't that where all creativity begins?  Think about it -- every stroke by a painter, every word laid upon paper by a writer, every movement by a dancer, every piece of improvisational music -- it all begins as play; it's all part of the creative process.

So Play

Play with words

Play with paints

Play with photography

Play with music

Play with dance
Play with ideas 
Play with the things you love

Play with the ones you love
Play with things that change the way you see

Play as if your life depends upon it

Because it does

 
Have a nice weekend, everyone!
Here's hoping that
this little piece
will help you see something you might not have seen otherwise.