We wrap up this week with the Modern Day Muse, Aha-phrodite with a quote from Georgia O’Keeffe and the script and episode from A Muse’s Daydream.
The World Inside of a Flower < the recording
“Georgia O’Keefe said, “When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.”
So I took that to hear, I’m currently broadcasting from inside a flower, it’s a hibiscus, it’s my world for a moment … It’s Hibiscus. On the way in, I got pollen all over my new white dress, which is a nice change from cat hair and mustard. Pollen is everywhere . I snort a bit to see if it has any kind of mind-altering effects like seeing butterflies or hummingbirds. (a snort and lots of sneezing here).
Sneezing can be cathartic. Ever sneeze and feel a little lighter because of it? Like you just got rid of some stress, anger, or something in your nose you didn’t know was there but now can breathe easier and feel relieved other people can’t see what’s in your nose? I feel very VERY light because of the sneezing and am actually floating upwards because of it
I’m floating above the high-biscus… and am high. It’s a Creative high– the only side effects are poems, sketches of coffee cups drawn with eyes closed, and clutter on my dining room table.
When I’m in the flow, time is gone, stress evaporates, the clutter on my dining room table doesn’t matter. I return to myself. I return to a love affair with art and writing.
A bee is headed right toward me due to this pollen situation so I have lowered back down into the flower again, and again it is my world for this moment.
Novelist, philosopher Iris Murdoch said, “People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” I can get mad-with-joy upon seeing the variety of flowers in my neighborhood, Indian paint brush, primrose, poppies, periwinkle, black eyed susans… I counted once and there were 963 varieties of flowers. (Okay, I didn’t count, that was an estimation.)”
Next week we will have a visit from the Modern Day Muse, Albert, The Muse of Thinking Differently.
Jill
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