[/caption]I don't want to live in a world where Vampires aren't sexy.
Similarly, I want my sharks to be toothless and coy, my grizzlies loyal and cuddly. Is that so much to ask?
I'm discovering that it is possible to craft the world of my dreams that I may live there for hours, if not days at a time. The imagination, which thrives in our youth and gets tamped down in adolescence and beyond, is as important to our well-being as the pragmatic.
Our imaginations are Atlantis, a nearly inaccessible world just as real and valid as the empirical one, teeming with life just below the placid surface of our collective consciousness - below anxiety, hunger, duty and call to survival.
Our imaginations, more on par with the call of the wild, are teases. They reveal their existence only sporadically, and their fruit if sampled makes us maddeningly happy, spurring us to acknowledge their significance, battle our gatekeepers into submission, and take the plunge.
Wow! this is a very wide imagination, I love the part of "our imaginations are Atlantis", nice writing style!
ReplyDeleteI think that time is our main challenge!
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I love my imagination, although sometimes it does get the better of me.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, my best thoughts occur when I am in the shower or driving down the road and long forgotten before giving me the chance to put pen to paper [or fingers to keyboard].
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Dude, I think you imagination is alive and very very well. Totally.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the world of your dreams.
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great post, Heather! I love the first line... and adore reading your "plunge", or more accurately, plunges. :)
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Thank you, Hesham. :)
ReplyDeleteI agree that it's important to have quiet time to access our imaginations. How to get more of that? Hmmm...
Hi Anne! I know what you mean about idea evaporation. Get a small tape recorder and keep it in your purse! That helps, since you obviously can't write when driving. It's funny to listen a week later - sometimes the ideas are so much fun, other times it's like, "What was I thinking??" lol
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Margo! That means a lot to me. The feeling is mutual.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
ReplyDeleteI had a dream last night that we were renting a house and that guy Johnny Galecki from Roseanne walked in the door with a load of friends. I told him that he should knock because, although he owned the house, we were renters and he owed us that courtesy. He looked at me like I was an idiot. Ahh, dreams...
Imagination is such a big part of manifesting the world in which we live no matter how improbable or fanciful. I am not sure when I first understood that, but I think somehow as an artist I always did.
ReplyDeleteYou had quite away of expressing how marvelous our imaginations are in your post and I could not agree more with your assesment.
Never accept reality as the final say on anything, and may you never let someone else try to force their reality upon you EVER.
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Well thank you, Jay! Imagination adds the magic to the meaning. I visited your blog and I see what a wonderful artist you are, and that you know of what you speak! I appreciate the visit and comment. :)
ReplyDeleteWell, I couldn't image a world without imagination.
ReplyDeleteImagination is what makes the world go round. Without imagination, life would be incomplete.
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