Author: clfuu

Whether it’s a classic snowman or a fancy robot, building something out of snow is a pure labor of love, done for the act of creation itself, since nothing made of snow can last.

What do you create simply for the act of creation?

In the Jewish calendar Tu B’Shevat marks the new year for trees (as opposed to the new year for the universe/calendar, which happens in the fall at Rosh Hashana). Why have a new year for trees at a time when you couldn’t possibly hope for blossoms? Perhaps because the new year happens when things are very first in bud, not when they start to unfold.

What in your life in is bud?

In The Wizard of Oz it turns out that Dorothy had the capacity to get herself home all along—she just needed to click together the heels of her ruby slippers.

When have you discovered that you held within yourself the solution to a seemingly insoluble problem?

Responsibilities, worries, tasks needing to be done, all accumulate like snowfall—sometimes one little flake at a time and sometimes in what feels like a great blizzard.

In those moments when it feels like you are carrying as much as you can hold, what helps you to lighten the load, or at least find some serenity with carrying it?

 “The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”
― Ezra Pound

How do you invest yourself in the art of invention or discovery?