WHAT DOES ART HAVE TO DO WITH
ANYTHING?
I want to tell you that the creative process will be healing for you, in
and of itself. But I’m a terrible liar.
I can’t bring up the creative process without being honest about my own
path. The arts, or any artistic practices, were hard for me in the early days
of
grief. I resented words and writing for a really long time. I resented any
creative
process for a really long time. Even as I needed them.

WHAT DOES ART HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING? I want to tell you that the creative process will be healing for you, in and of itself. But I’m a terrible liar. I can’t bring up the creative process without being honest about my own path. The arts, or any artistic practices, were hard for me in the early days of grief. I resented words and writing for a really long time. I resented any creative process for a really long time. Even as I needed them.

WHAT DOES ART HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?

There is a twin paradox in being human. First, no one can live your life
for you—no one can face what is yours to face or feel what is yours to feel—and
no one can make it alone. Secondly, in living our one life, we are here to love
and lose. No one knows why. It is just so. If we commit to loving, we will
inevitably know loss and grief. If we try to avoid loss and grief, we will never
truly love. Yet powerfully and mysteriously, knowing both love and loss is what
brings us fully and deeply alive.

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There is a twin paradox in being human. First, no one can live your life for you—no one can face what is yours to face or feel what is yours to feel—and no one can make it alone. Secondly, in living our one life, we are here to love and lose. No one knows why. It is just so. If we commit to loving, we will inevitably know loss and grief. If we try to avoid loss and grief, we will never truly love. Yet powerfully and mysteriously, knowing both love and loss is what brings us fully and deeply alive.

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