Thursday, February 26, 2009

Life as Art


Cute butts. Oh, these aren't horses?
Close enough.








Cute Baby and Dog.
It's Baby D and Peaches.


Did you happen to catch John Travolta’s two hour interview by James Lipton on the television show The Screen Actors Guild? There are so many things ills of the world, said Travolta, that we could cry at any minute, yet we have to find the joy.
Travolta was the youngest of six kids, and he said his parents worshiped the ground they walked on. If he carried out the garbage his mother would say, “Look at that boy. Isn’t he a genius?” With a theatrical mother waving her hand and asking, “Daul-ling, would you like another orange juice?” Travolta would perform while his parents waved their cigarettes and drank their wine and with incredible patience allow him to carry on and then give him a standing ovation.

The other day when Baby D pooped his diaper Daughter D said, “Isn’t he a genius?”
We gave him a standing ovation.

I’m thinking back to the day Baby D was born—we anticipated that event for so long and we know every woman views it with a mixture of fear and excitement—even grandmothers. Now thinking back it was ethereal. Daughter D says the same thing, it went so fast—we were there, time went by, the baby was born—what happened? It was a work of art. As an artistic event exists in some nebulous spot in the sky, so Baby D hung out there, then he slipped onto earth, and now he will have choices, and a pallet of life’s colors in which to play.

What happened to all the people who were following Eckhart Tolle’s book A New Earth, Awaking to Your Life's Purpose? I bought Tolle's book when I perused his book and found his story about flowers.
Flowers existed before there were people to enjoy them. When flowers first made their debut it was one here, one there. Then suddenly a miracle occurred. The world exploded into blossom. Flowers, says Tolle were the first thing people valued that had no utilitarian purpose--that is they weren't linked to survival. Human Beings were awakened to beauty. That is the way with enlightenment, first one enlightened being will pop, then another. Suddenly an enlightenment explosion.

It works in reverse too--like the stock market. A little fear, the market does down. The world looks rosy, stocks go up. Think of it this way: A company is worth a million dollars. You buy a stock for $1.00. It catches on that this company is doing well, so the stock jumps to $100.00 per share. Now the company is worth one hundred million. A downsizing happens. The stocks plummet back down to $1.00. What happened to the ninety nine million?

It was never there.

It was a matter of attitude.

At Travolta’s first theatrical audition the interviewers told him to get out of the business.
He thought, These people are nuts.
Now, that's great attitude.
I'm waiting for the flowers to bloom.
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