How to Live and Let Go: Stardust and a Creative Life
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How to Live and Let Go:
Stardust and a Creative Life
Recently, I said goodbye to my parents’ farm. Not easy.
My parents bought the property in 1976 as a place to gather, a home for retirement, a structure to repair, and a history to honor. My parents’ siblings died young, and the farm housed decades of family records. Handwritten narratives about Scotland’s potato famine were shoved into boxes. There were records from settlers in Indiana and old photographs of early automobiles. During the Korean War, my parents wrote to one another every single day. Their letters were bundled with ribbons and placed carefully inside an old trunk.
Letting go was not an easy process. Details of the procedure are best forgotten.
Until.
Until I realized the land had been there long before me and would exist long after me. The land came before the letters, and rivers existed before the photographs. We come and go as stardust.
While there, I walked through towering cornstalks and listened. The insects understood. They hummed and buzzed and on more than one occasion, bit me. Birds flew overhead. River rocks churned toward the shore, transforming first to pebbles, then to sand. Like the land, we are in constant transformation, of movement, and attached to nothing but our internal spirits.
Isn’t this so with creativity?
Non-attachment helps us be less fearful and more able to explore, take risks, and develop new ideas. Creativity is less about outcome than it is about flow. The more a person lets go, the more they are open to innovation. Art, in any form, is not about clinging, it is about releasing. It is about connecting to our internal spirits.
I will forever miss the farm, but the land and my ancestors’ spirits are with me. This insight has given me profound freedom and unleashed a new level of creativity. I am free to connect everything and everyone into my flow.
Where can you let go?
Quotes for the Soul!
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. ”
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. ”
“We spend enormous energy trying to control what cannot be controlled. Is it possible to trust what remains when you let go of any attempt to control?”
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
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Thanks for reading. Creativity is not a command performance, but I hope you’ll stay and become inspired. If you know someone interested in creative endeavors, please forward this on!
Yours in spirited creativity,