did you see the words

listening to animal collective, which is very good music to create to, and making some locket shadow boxes from my recent thrift excursions, to hopefully add to my shop tomorrow.

i've been thinking about inspiration lately - what it means, how it comes, who 'claims' it. can you nudge it into existence? how?

i've also been reading emerson's essays, which i had to read years ago for school, but haven't looked at for a long time. it's so striking that lines i underlined with such importance then seem so prophetic now, and worded with convictions that have only held fast, only i didn't realize it. his words once felt like something i thought were true, but i struggled to live by them. now they feel like something i have lived through and know to be true. i had forgotten that i found his words so reassuring:

'though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.'

'once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.'

'it is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.'

Comments

[Shari]

hi again Jerusha-
lovely thoughts and words...am truly enjoying your new blog. Thanks for sharing.

[Robin]

Those are some profound words! Something to think about.