One of the most helpful of your posts. It is a gift to your readers. I wonder if the creative gift goes both ways with God. Perhaps your creativity is a gift to God, but also God speaks through you as you create, thus God’s gift to you.
Shemaiah, what a cool coincidence: I just finished reading this last weekend & loved it too. Particularly moved by what he says about letting go of the work when it's time (my present wrangle) & not holding oneself to a past version of one's own style due to the risk of self-pastiche (not exactly how he puts it, but what I took). A timely read at any stage of the creative process <3
Katy, this is SO not a book that I thought you would read. The topic yes, the author is what threw me off. I love that we were in sync on this. I am still savoring it. I think I will finish it next week. I feel it is meant to read slowly and interact with. Sounds like we are both going through some transformations
Oh, though, I love any kind of discussion on the nature of art, and I especially love it when that nature can be a meeting place with someone who has a wildly different life and worldview otherwise. And the prose in this one had that pared-down minimalist quality: such a delight. Even when I disagreed with him I felt he would have been pleased with me for disagreeing with him, in that if-you-meet-the-buddha sort of way. :) Three cheers for transformations of the best kind!
I knew he was a genius in the studio but I had no idea he'd be so forthright about his spiritual process.
The book and interview are phenomenal. We are driving to Whidbey tomorrow and I’m making the entire family listen to the podcast.
Awesome.
One of the most helpful of your posts. It is a gift to your readers. I wonder if the creative gift goes both ways with God. Perhaps your creativity is a gift to God, but also God speaks through you as you create, thus God’s gift to you.
Yes! He addresses this in the book too. That the process is often better than the result.
Ah, and now I'm getting emotional. Thank you for sharing this!
Now I am emotional again because you are emotional!
Shemaiah, what a cool coincidence: I just finished reading this last weekend & loved it too. Particularly moved by what he says about letting go of the work when it's time (my present wrangle) & not holding oneself to a past version of one's own style due to the risk of self-pastiche (not exactly how he puts it, but what I took). A timely read at any stage of the creative process <3
Katy, this is SO not a book that I thought you would read. The topic yes, the author is what threw me off. I love that we were in sync on this. I am still savoring it. I think I will finish it next week. I feel it is meant to read slowly and interact with. Sounds like we are both going through some transformations
Oh, though, I love any kind of discussion on the nature of art, and I especially love it when that nature can be a meeting place with someone who has a wildly different life and worldview otherwise. And the prose in this one had that pared-down minimalist quality: such a delight. Even when I disagreed with him I felt he would have been pleased with me for disagreeing with him, in that if-you-meet-the-buddha sort of way. :) Three cheers for transformations of the best kind!
I so agree!
Amen. Amen to all of it.
Just Amen.
❤️
Malcolm Gladwell interviewed him for a Revisionist History episode: https://youtu.be/0qD6vLIxqE4