This arrived as I am in the midst of a huge theatre studies conference on Carnival. The energetic keynote yesterday was given by Brazilian scholar & practitioner Adriana Schneider Alcure - "Carnival in dystopian times". I think you would have appreciated it! (Her references were taken from Benjamin, Fereira da Silva etc,)
Yes... creativity (which is not only 'high art' but also preparing a good meal) happens in liminal spaces... at thresholds ... in the moment (that immeasurable space between 'past' and 'future' that is always and only where we are)...
The work feels daunting only until we begin it... then courage takes over from fear... and acts... in the direction of what must be done ...with integrity...
I read this to say that the messianic attitude is a practice of equanimity requiring diligence, humor, friendship and skill. A continous shifting of perspective. Can equanimity be learned? If so, can it be taught?
Yes nicely put. So much education and learning now hangs on the transmission of facts, the ability to reproduce information on demand. Where to learn patterns of being? From where/whom can I learn and practice these kinds of virtues and make them my own...?
Perhaps it is especially in the moments where one finds oneself ‘wrenching apart’ where that gate opens - that strait and narrow gate through which at any second ‘the Messiah might enter.’
Phwoar. Let’s live here for a bit.
This arrived as I am in the midst of a huge theatre studies conference on Carnival. The energetic keynote yesterday was given by Brazilian scholar & practitioner Adriana Schneider Alcure - "Carnival in dystopian times". I think you would have appreciated it! (Her references were taken from Benjamin, Fereira da Silva etc,)
I wish I was there, it sounds brilliant
Yes... creativity (which is not only 'high art' but also preparing a good meal) happens in liminal spaces... at thresholds ... in the moment (that immeasurable space between 'past' and 'future' that is always and only where we are)...
The work feels daunting only until we begin it... then courage takes over from fear... and acts... in the direction of what must be done ...with integrity...
I read this to say that the messianic attitude is a practice of equanimity requiring diligence, humor, friendship and skill. A continous shifting of perspective. Can equanimity be learned? If so, can it be taught?
Yes nicely put. So much education and learning now hangs on the transmission of facts, the ability to reproduce information on demand. Where to learn patterns of being? From where/whom can I learn and practice these kinds of virtues and make them my own...?
Hmm, love this. Art/life as a conversation between reality and what should not be and what could be. Stuff to chew on!
This one's a real beaut buddy. Thanks for writing it, and to L for that Camus essay! 🌟
Thank Jez 🙏🏻
Perhaps it is especially in the moments where one finds oneself ‘wrenching apart’ where that gate opens - that strait and narrow gate through which at any second ‘the Messiah might enter.’
Oof yes, exactly. A wrenching is a thin-place, a messianic door... the double meaning of 'apocalypse': crisis and a revealing