12.25.23

Thought

I was made a revolutionary in spite of myself. Now, revolutionary outbreaks are never completely spontaneous. There are clever people who bring about revolutions with malice aforethought.... It is always necessary to guard against being misrepresented by those who impute to you an intention that is not your own. For myself, I never hear anyone talk about revolution without thinking of the conversation that G. K. Chesterton tells us he had, on landing in France, with a Calais innkeeper. The innkeeper complained bitterly of the harshness of life and increasing lack of freedom: “‘It’s hardly worthwhile,’ concluded the innkeeper, ‘to have had three revolutions only to end up every time just where you started.”’ Whereupon Chesterton pointed out to him that a revolution, in the true sense of the word, was the movement of an object in motion that described a closed curve, and thus always returned to the point from where it had started.

— Igor Stravinsky. Poetics of Music – Creators on Creating.

Quote

Poet Rumi on existence:

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.

Moment of Gratitude 

I’m grateful for all of the experiences I have day to day that feed my creativity and growth.

What are you grateful for?

Happy Monday and to all who celebrate, Merry Christmas,

Val