Magic. Collaboration
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wolven7"Little known fact: magic spells work. The trick is, always keep your word. If you do that, eventually just saying something makes it happen." - Molly Crabapple
I've been thinking about and doing a lot of magic, these past few days. And I will keep doing so, despite what it's doing to my head. The combinations of work and conversation and openness happening, in my life, are precisely the kinds of things I've always said I wanted, but they are fast, and they are slippery things, and they have very jagged edges. I trip over them, as I approach, you see, and they are hard to navigate. Things I think will be hard to say, or do are easy, and things I think should be easy make me hesitate and dither. But I must not fear, right? Right. So I push forward.
I am avoiding saying something: Every act of honest communication is an act of magic. To express to someone the bare part of you is to make yourself vulnerable to their taking it, turning it in their hands, caressing, scratching, breaking what you have offered. You leave yourself open to being misapprehended. And that is scary, in itself, but couple it with the idea of what can be done with the things that people have misunderstood, what people will do and think, based on not quite getting what you were giving... That's damn terrifying.
But it is the only way things can get done, and still mean anything. We are not Borg. WE are not a single hive-mind. We are individuals. We are points on a continuum, the infinitude of centres of a circumfrenceless circle. WE are the interplay of paradox which generates the universe. We have to be different, or we might as well not Be.
You make music. I explain. She illustrates. He writes. They tell stories, with words, or photos, or clay and fiery metals, and we create, out of all of it. We make things. We change things. Our methods differ. Our visions are unique, but our goals-- at least for a short while-- can become aligned.
What do you want to do? How can I help you do it? Tell me, and I'll do what I can.
I am interested in changing this world, and I would be honoured if you'd do that, with me.
I've been thinking about and doing a lot of magic, these past few days. And I will keep doing so, despite what it's doing to my head. The combinations of work and conversation and openness happening, in my life, are precisely the kinds of things I've always said I wanted, but they are fast, and they are slippery things, and they have very jagged edges. I trip over them, as I approach, you see, and they are hard to navigate. Things I think will be hard to say, or do are easy, and things I think should be easy make me hesitate and dither. But I must not fear, right? Right. So I push forward.
I am avoiding saying something: Every act of honest communication is an act of magic. To express to someone the bare part of you is to make yourself vulnerable to their taking it, turning it in their hands, caressing, scratching, breaking what you have offered. You leave yourself open to being misapprehended. And that is scary, in itself, but couple it with the idea of what can be done with the things that people have misunderstood, what people will do and think, based on not quite getting what you were giving... That's damn terrifying.
But it is the only way things can get done, and still mean anything. We are not Borg. WE are not a single hive-mind. We are individuals. We are points on a continuum, the infinitude of centres of a circumfrenceless circle. WE are the interplay of paradox which generates the universe. We have to be different, or we might as well not Be.
You make music. I explain. She illustrates. He writes. They tell stories, with words, or photos, or clay and fiery metals, and we create, out of all of it. We make things. We change things. Our methods differ. Our visions are unique, but our goals-- at least for a short while-- can become aligned.
What do you want to do? How can I help you do it? Tell me, and I'll do what I can.
I am interested in changing this world, and I would be honoured if you'd do that, with me.
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Date: 2010-01-08 06:01 am (UTC)One thing I've been trying to articulate since we've friended eachother:
Your passion motivates me. It makes me want to join in your mission/goal/lifework to see how I can both effect it and be changed in turn.
Thank you for that.
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Date: 2010-01-09 04:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-08 07:13 am (UTC)Magic is often internal. Alchemy. It transforms us, moves us upwards and on. By changing ourselves, the world around us changes, too.
I want to trigger awareness of that magic that lingers within every person. It has faded very badly in our modern society, but it could be rekindled. Call it the soul, if that works. By whatever name it is called, I would love to see that become an awareness again.
How can you help me do it? I struggle, every day, to strengthen and understand the magic of human existence. How does one speak of something so personal, so integral? Help me find the words for it.
~Jaym
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Date: 2010-01-09 04:12 am (UTC)Show them how it fits, how it benefits them, more than it makes them embarrassed, and they'll flock to you.
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Date: 2010-01-09 04:23 pm (UTC)Yes, this, but I do it with folklore, culture, communication, and art. I'd say that's one of my largest goals--to be able to interact with people, and in doing so learn about their values and worldview, and then be able to explain to them (so that they can learn to do it on their own) how expressive culture is both reflective and formative of our values, our realities. This is something I'd like to do within an educational context (which means I need to write my dissertation so I can get my Ph.D. and become a professor) and in the rest of my life (as I interact with people through dance and food, but also just hanging out, conversing, hosting gatherings/salons, and so on).
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Date: 2010-01-09 04:47 pm (UTC)I really need it to be, everyday, in every way.