Meeting Outline 10/21/01

Edwin

Ida

Joan

Sandra

Joan

The last time I was inspired?

Sitting down after a long back-pack. Boy those boulders were larger that I expected and those mosquitoes that plastered themselves on every possible open skin were unbearable. Slugging along the creek bed and being off trail kept me wondering if we would finally find the destination we planned on as our campsite for the trip.  Walking along in those conditions with hardly a word with my fellow sluggers was not the platform I expected to enjoy my surroundings.

What seemed to be like a long time in terms of fatigue however came to an abrupt ending. We had arrived. The surroundings were tranquil, serene and had a feeling of unreality. Earlier today I had been driving along the freeway with autos whizzing by and here I was in another world.  The lake looked inviting and those towers of strength surrounded us. My mind and body suddenly felt a feeling of openness that reflected my beautiful surroundings. a feeling of anything is possible prevailed.

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My thoughts of inspiration directed themselves to what makes up the event. What happens when inspiration strikes. What are the components of inspiration? My feelings took the form of wanting to dissect what inspiration is and what each part contributes to the whole. My first  thoughts were just the ideas, then spontaneity, intuition, energy and lastly revelation. When I think about the actual order of how the event of inspiration occurs - I feel the order I put them down in the drawing, as they come to me reflects how the event happens to me.

Edwin

The last time I was inspired?

Several weeks ago Joan and I were in the kitchen and we started talking about Inspiration Project Exhibition. I mentioned an idea for the exhibit, I think it was for the putting up Ink Blots onto a white sheet of paper that people could draw and write onto. Joan started to mention some ideas for the exhibit as well. A back and forth flow of ideas started that had a great feeling of enthusiasm for me. I got totally involved in the imagining the exhibits and the sharing of the ideas. one idea branched off into another. It was a shared experience. The sharing was one of the feelings I enjoyed. When I'm working on a lot of projects I work on my own  and it has a bit of loneliness to it.

I did have an experience recently where on my own I had that flood of inspired ideas. I don't even remember what set it off, I think I wrote it down in my journal.

Inspiration and memory, that's something to think about.

These experiences of inspiration came with others and by myself. Something I wonder i how to cultivate these experiences. They seem to happen unplanned, suddenly and then they come to an end.

I wonder if my sense of work, or work ethic acts as a weight on the inspiration. Or analyzing of the experience. Better to delve into the experience, hmmm., how about with a poem.

 

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I first thought of inspiration being composed of enthusiasm and energy. Then I recalled the inspiration coming from sharing. The ideas come together and merge and there's an enthusiasm as well.

I kept thinking of hoe to cultivate inspiration. I like gardening and feel relaxed doing it. I'd like to find out what it takes to cultivate inspiration.

(The ideas are separate images that float into awareness like little movie snapshots. I'd like to make a video like this.

So back to cultivation inspiration. I think maybe meditation is a way. when I sit at 'Spirit Rock' meditation center, ideas come up.

However, what I don't like with meditation is that the inspirations don't get documented.  That's why I drew sitting at the desk and inspirations flowing   flowing into me and out onto the desk.

I then thought of following the energy and I began to wonder about the blocks, financial pressures and worry.

notes:

Rebecca talked about  how inspiration comes from violence, repression.

Sandra mentioned, you have the idea, then do something with it, and get some satisfaction, (some people say "so what" after it's over,, go for the process., you can get focused on the goal and it's the process that's important..

Sandra

The last time I was inspired?

Well, I made this necklace I mean I put it together. I was inspired when I bough the pieces for some de??lare. I was also inspired when I started coming up with creative solutions from my steps but then as I explained and explained it to a friend and they seemed to disapprove. I felt disappointed and angry and I felt I had to explain and defend my idea and slowly the creative ??fon? turned into disappointment and resignation but ...... I still think there is something there to grow into reality.

So my necklace thing I was roaming to a ???? an  antique store in Penna. after my brothers Christian wedding and I found all there $.25 pieces of chain and catholic saints. Inspiration for me a lot of the time is.... Oh, I could do this and teat and then.... yes and then I could. It's the beautiful balance between the little kid in me that dreams, hopes and plays and exchment?? and cpeats?? and wonders and is open and the adult in me that says ??? dos and does.

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Expressing Inspiration. Letting go to the inspiration, surrender to the moment of the hand... the idea and seeing and feeling the "no" and finding and allowing the yes. In and out  inspiration  and out spiration.

Lettuce play.

Oh no it feels like work.. weeeee

let's play..

Ida

The last time I was inspired?

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Rebecca

The last time I was inspired?