It’s a chill one this campervan morning. A dark grey heavy day all day yesterday and much of a muchness this morning. Something shifted over the last few days and a sense that we are finally heading into winter or something like what winter used to be. The cloud doesn’t appear to have changed over the last 48hours, it’s dull and heavy. A breeze is bringing down leaves and the drey is empty and the Oak is a cacophony of Squirrel calls, shouts, screams or whatever you call them. A couple of Magpies flitting between the Ash and the Oak, two Crows in the highest branches. A few occasional hill cries. It’s a wee bit later than usual a hangover from community drumming and self care Sundays, but here we are another week gone bye. Reflecting on the circle yesterday and a few of the interactions with people and still astounded that they come back for more. Contemplating the week ahead, experiences and adventures planned. I came across a quote yesterday that once again jumped out at me. It is by the novelist Sherwood Anderson who wrote “The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.” It had me reflecting about the art I’m involved in. I’m not a drawer or a painter, I have two left hands so to speak. My creativity is around my facilitation, my drumming, my photography and maybe my amateurish writing. So I had myself contemplating how much is it around saving myself. How much understanding of myself reveals itself in the writing, pictures and creativity that I am involved with and likewise with yourself, how much of yourself is revealed or saved. How much of yourself is saved by the act of creativity ? I watched the wonderful Grayson Perry a few nights ago and the stories of unfolding and life saving that was expressed through the art was so moving. Ordinary peoples lives that has been saved, turned around by the expression of the self. One woman called her studio the ‘The Creationary ‘. Just how wonderful was that ? The importance of creativity, the fulfilment, expression and saving of the self. Lovely days people. Creative self care Sundays.
“ You use a glass mirror to see your face. You use works of art to see your soul." George Bernard Shaw
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