I don't think we can't help it. Maybe we just decide to act on it or not. Share it or not.
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Jan Stevenson
I love your double negative. “I don’t think we can’t help it.” It’s like catching ourselves in a worry pattern, but for so many it seems they channel (the imaginative energy) into dystopian or zombie apocalypse stories and if the authors have a following those stories grow into accepted “entertainment.” I do feel that as creatives, women, mothers and lovers, our greatest power is to know when it is just the wrong time to suggest or illuminate worst possible scenarios. Your images today give sacred structure to thought as well as the reality of place. People need a break from the heavy-duty sorting of what is not real from what Is real. “We decide to act on it or not. Share it or not.”
I think so. Some people I know talk like the apocalypse, zombie or otherwise, is something that could happen, and listening to them I feel they are zombies themselves. My reply is usually that I thought it was already here. Perhaps knowing past from present and taking care with the future?
This reminds of my morning drive. Grayish clouds, edging in pink, so dimensional, opening…behind them, blue sky with small Magritte-like floating by…Wonderful!
Your world here is a beauty!
wow – this is a striking image yet has such familiarity to it! I tend to shy away from technology as well… too frustrating at times. But I do use it as a tool occasionally and maybe someday will play like this!
New paths sometimes beckon and sometimes not…my difficulty lies usually when the path beckons beyond the mountain of responsibilities…..
I yearn to be an explorer.
I think I have realized over the years that they mimic the way we think. Layers. I really don’t use them much except on a very simple level. One thing over another, just to see. I like them as a visualizing tool only and not as a final product. Mostly any photo app will allow you to lay one photo over another and adjust the transparency so you can see through one to another. You can try, it’s only fun.
I love your double negative. “I don’t think we can’t help it.” It’s like catching ourselves in a worry pattern, but for so many it seems they channel (the imaginative energy) into dystopian or zombie apocalypse stories and if the authors have a following those stories grow into accepted “entertainment.” I do feel that as creatives, women, mothers and lovers, our greatest power is to know when it is just the wrong time to suggest or illuminate worst possible scenarios. Your images today give sacred structure to thought as well as the reality of place. People need a break from the heavy-duty sorting of what is not real from what Is real. “We decide to act on it or not. Share it or not.”
It is all very difficult for me to judge.
But following/money can change a lot of minds. Perhaps creating the zombie apocalypse itself.
I think so. Some people I know talk like the apocalypse, zombie or otherwise, is something that could happen, and listening to them I feel they are zombies themselves. My reply is usually that I thought it was already here. Perhaps knowing past from present and taking care with the future?
This reminds of my morning drive. Grayish clouds, edging in pink, so dimensional, opening…behind them, blue sky with small Magritte-like floating by…Wonderful!
Your world here is a beauty!
rebuilding worlds, we do that in so many ways
Looks like an opening in a gray, overcast sky to let the colorful clouds out (or is it in?).
feels like either way, passage
Thank you for that lovely image, Jude! Such beautiful colours in the sky and against it, the dark trees….
that pink cloud in the sky from the other morning, I think it might have inspired me. but those threads are hard to follow…
wow – this is a striking image yet has such familiarity to it! I tend to shy away from technology as well… too frustrating at times. But I do use it as a tool occasionally and maybe someday will play like this!
I always wonder, what if that which pleases us is in someway familiar? something we know without remembering.
So much good food for the imagination!
i wonder how it seems to you
Wow, wow, and wow. That is a spectacular image!
Thanks for that bit of imagination, Jude.
Sky has so much room for thought.
imagination. the greatest gift evolution has given homosapiens…
second, the ability to share it
And it is a form of mending…
mend and re create. re imagine
New paths sometimes beckon and sometimes not…my difficulty lies usually when the path beckons beyond the mountain of responsibilities…..
I yearn to be an explorer.
Thank you for sharing this this morning Jude.
xo
The mountain of responsibilities. I want to be able to draw that.
I wish I knew how to use digital tools! too set in my ways to make the time and try.
I think I have realized over the years that they mimic the way we think. Layers. I really don’t use them much except on a very simple level. One thing over another, just to see. I like them as a visualizing tool only and not as a final product. Mostly any photo app will allow you to lay one photo over another and adjust the transparency so you can see through one to another. You can try, it’s only fun.
That’s a gate to walk through. 🙂
right? BIG gate…
Imagination, the intangible gift. The Creation, the tangible result. Just imagine how many ideas never reach fruition!
or more than that, are never shared
Some of my favorite things here. The play between near and far, real and imagined, and a gate. I love a good entryway.
digital tools are so handy
and now thinking that digital tools were themselves imagined at one point…