Alycia Goeke on fri 24 oct 03
it's true that there are those who think this is more like play. i admit that
it has taken me a while to make it ok with myself to do this full time
because it is so much fun and i do love it but play? well, yes and no. i have a
neighbor who just can't get past the fact that i stay at home and "play with clay"
all day long. when i built my studio i got to hear the old adage of....you
know what happens when you turn your hobby into a business....i saw a quote by
someone the other day....it said something like when someone rains on your
parade, it's usually because they don't have one of their own. i feel blessed
beyond belief to find myself in the situation i'm in but to think i got here
randomly is to not understand anything about the laws of mind over matter!!!
happy potting,
alycia
Susan Fox-Hirschmann on fri 24 oct 03
Each of us are so fortunate to have found
a life in doing what we love! Let that not be forgotten
in the scheme of also trying to pay the bills.
Best to all of you that share my joy
Susan
Annandale, VA
Geoffrey Gaskell on sat 25 oct 03
Alycia Goeke wrote:
>it's true that there are those who think this is more like play. i admit that
>it has taken me a while to make it ok with myself to do this full time
>because it is so much fun and i do love it but play? well, yes and no. i have a
>neighbor who just can't get past the fact that i stay at home and "play with clay"
>all day long.
>
The sort of sentiment expressed by your neighbour is unsurprising to say
the least. There is only a very small percentage of people who actually
go to a workplace that they really enjoy. The vast majority hate their
jobs, though many will pretend to enjoy it when directly asked about it
(particularly by an authority figure). These same people will bleat
plaintively amongst themselves and bemoan their lot whenever they see
someone who is in real terms enjoying what they do and paying their
bills at the same time. Among the many pearls of wisdom to be found in
the Bible are regular comparisons between large numbers of people and
large numbers of sheep. It really is a very apt comparison.
The percentage of revolutionaries to reactionaries is very similar.
Individuals often have revolutionary ideas: those few who think and act
more often than not in individual terms are the true revolutionaries.
The majority who think too democratically and who seek safety in numbers
and follow the crowd are the reactionaries. Revolutions occur when a
majority suddenly follows an influential individual course. When the
dust settles, the revolution becomes a reaction and reverts to the
status quo of a new conservatism.
Commuter train and bus services and city streets are the best
laboratories for students and researchers of human nature (at least some
of whom turn out to be novelists, which latter group often devote a lot
of their time also to answering the perennial question "what do the
neighbours think?")
Anyway, such are a few of my own random and thoroughly disorganized
thoughts on "The Big Picture" in "The Grand Scheme of Things".
Geoffrey Gaskell (Bleating away)
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