A Brief Explanation of a Pause:
There are times when artists create and times when artists are limited to experience. Creativity ebbs and flows, time is stolen away by intruding opportunities and the influence of others. We must work; we must wander. We walk with hearts open. At times when we are free, we give and give. At other times we must close off and retreat, pulling deeply into ourselves to find the parameters of what it is that must be created. We seek, we become. We are only what we have always been. It is in this that we offer the pieces of ourselves to each other, gathering and increasing in the fury of life and the continuance of existence.
It’s been a few months since this blogger has written anything, and in apology she is offering this anecdote: Upon reaching the green shores of the Kingdom of Éire, a writer met a musician who asked her to sing. She was supposed to visit Ireland for a week. She stayed for a song. She sang for another. She sewed together the pieces of her heart and struck her finger on the stitching. She thumped a beat and he strummed a tune. They sang together and people listened. She was moved. Paths were abandoned and new passages formed. Time increased its rapidity, rather than slowed, communication and habits of old abandoned in new pursuits. Such is the way in a life lived wide open.
Committed to family and friends in her homeland, she returned home for weddings and holidays. He followed for a breath. They sang with her sister, who joined in with her oboe. They were rewarded with opportunity and met it well. Time paraded on and the end of a chapter was met; the beginning of another faced.
Though the current focus has shifted to music, the enduring passage remains in writing. Remember, then, that everything is temporary. We are here, here are we. We depart and we return. The writer pauses for a breath and waits for the moment the writing is to be continued. The song carries us through our breath and gives us hope, and joy.
Kilgore Trout @ Carnegie Library
said Irish musician.
said sister & sister.
