Am riding the N
Train, going local, on a Sunday (Nov. 12) and making notes.
When I arrived at
the station on the R Train, the more convenient D Train was on the express
track, doors open. We R passengers made a bee line for the doors, which closed
before anyone could get in. Then the D pulled out, which is why I’m on my
second choice: the slow-moving N.
How hard is it to
look and see, to accept, without judgment? For without that state of mind,
doesn’t creativity founder?
What is doubt in
art but the starter, what you build from the ground up, you know, like in
sourdough bread-making.
In art, your particular
brand of doubt creates something fresh and new, removed from the unoriginal,
the creative equivalent to the subway ad campaign for an entrepreneur service
that in one ad chastises those who take a simple career path, noting
disdainfully that it’s called a path because someone else has blazed it,
meaning by that very nature the path is unoriginal and therefore not worthy of
the best among us.
Precept: Original
and new is good; unoriginal and old is bad.
A second ad by the
entrepreneur gurus says: “Nobody ever said: ‘Just think about it.”
Except, of course,
philosopher kings and queens … After all, thinking is the one thing that, at
least theoretically, we humans do better than other animals. We apparently
think; it is other animals that “do,” who, in fact, are the masters of doing.
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