Something To Think About and Journal Notes

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

  Imagination is the key to curiosity. It is the magic that makes concepts come true.  Nothing happens without imagination.

  We must constantly work to increase our imaginative talents. Curiosity is to bring into existence what did not exists before, whether it be a thought, concept, art, or idea.  But curiosity is impossible without imagination.  All the knowledge, talent, desire, and motivation mean nothing toward a creative art without imagination.  Everyday we must practice the same as we would the piano or a sport.

  Use each of your senses in imagining what you are seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching if they were not the same, they would be different.  Do this constantly.  Add different senses together or interchange.  For instance, how would a red light taste or smell?  How could a chair be used as a table or make a picture come alive by setting yourself into the scene?  Use your imagination in thinking how you could do something different in a relationship with persons, work, art, interests.  Think of ways to change the ordinary, change places, mentally, with the next person or someone you are thinking of or wish to know better.  Think of new ways for old things or different ways of going the known way.  Make new out of old.  Make new out of nothing by using what you know and don’t know.  Study koans.

  Take time to listen to each sound, enjoy and use fully each of the senses.

  Roger Green, 1997

           JOURNAL NOTES

      Why must we wait until the ending days of our life to know truly what we desire from it?  My spirit lies peaceful in the movement of the Colorado River, or when it is so quiet that I hear the wings of the Redwing Black Bird in flight.  I find peace as the sun goes down slowly, ever changing the harsh light of day to soft gold colors of dusk.  How can one not be lifted when nature soothes a tired mind of all the harshness of the world?  Nature exists without demands and expectation.  We should desire to live in harmony with it.  Creationists believe that god created it, many of us believe it was created by way of evolutionary chance.  I really don’t care how it came to be, although I fall with science, as long as we love it and preserve it knowing we are sojourners here and leave it intact for the next.  My ending day desires are to love my husband and my kitty and to ever be given the gift of knowledge and appreciation of what my eyes behold.

  I included Roger in Something To Think About this day.  I review his journals many times because I never fail to find things that remind me to think; to not be in such a hurry that important thoughts and actions get pushed to the back and the loudest things take over the moment.  Not the most important, just the loudest.  Always take time to think.As I wrote to my granddaughter this morning, our lives are the sum of the choices we have made.  Not everything is going to be what we planned or thought was right at the moment, but do our best and don’t act on rash thought.  Even if it goes awry, know that thought was involved and right or wrong there is something to be learned in the outcome.