Short post this week. Lots to do. Here's a peek at the painting in progress I'm working on for REQUIEM. I started this in the Winter Quarter (which is posted in an early Blog entry).
Love and fear. Fear and love. Opposites. Some people think that the opposite of fear is courage. It's not. Heroes are those that feel the fear and choose to do the thing they fear anyway. The Samurai were taught to put their fear on the end of their swords and cut with it.
I find myself paralyzed at times...not knowing what to do when I am faced with creating something. It is fear of many flavors that holds me back. I find the prescription for this to be simply starting to do the work...and also to do something that I love to do in the process. Perhaps this is why my home projects always necessitate a trip to Home Depot.
The good books say: "Perfect love casteth out fear" and "Fear not. Only love" and a thousand other pieces of wisdom from every prophet and saint in history. Who, by the way, were often indistinguishable from crazy people and madmen in their time...living in caves, wearing animal skins and eating insects.
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