I have of late encountered a series of experiences that have delivered a reassuring and startling message: There are many who carry on the work of creativity, and many who are doing so in ways that are more refined, more radical, more elaborate, more whatever than me! A small and not-to-be-honored egocentric part begrudges them: \u201cKids today, hmpf!\u201d But a bigger part of me celebrates them! \u201cYes! You go! This is great stuff!\u201d (and better than I can do).<\/p>\n
One of these pioneers is the work of the psychiatrist Dan Siegel and his integration of brain science and dynamic psychology\u2014\u201cinterpersonal neurobiology.\u201d Another is the work of \u201canimusic\u201d\u2014a new form of computer graphic cartoon that takes Walt Disney\u2019s efforts in the direction of Fantasia to new heights. I have several friends who are doing other stuff: Jeff Hoke\u2019s \u201cMuseum of Lost Wonder\u201d explores harmonies and archetypes in novel ways, and Lynclaire Dennis\u2019 \u201cMereon\u201d does it yet in another way. Now a trend entitled \u201cDevelopmental Transformations\u201d has emerged out of the field of Drama Therapy and extends my own work in the Art of Play further.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, I notice that in several ways I\u2019m getting slightly older and some things aren\u2019t working as well\u2014\u201csenior moments,\u201d they call it euphemistically. I couldn\u2019t immediately recall my last cat\u2019s name (she died 15 years ago)\u2014but that was a shocker. The cosmos is conspiring: I call it \u201cpro-noia\u201d\u2014it\u2019s not paranoid, but rather the faith-filled feeling that they\u2019re trying to get me enlightened and happy. I surrender to this, or try to re-orient my mind so I can do so.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not that I\u2019m not sharp and productive. Another friend hosts my riffs on various topics and I\u2019m honored. I expect that this productivity will continue and the quality will remain high. It\u2019s just that I can\u2019t get away with harboring a secret, subconscious expectation that all this will go on forever<\/p>\n
The sage bush in our front yard has grown old and so scraggly with dead branches in the lower sections that we cut it down. Bushes growing old?! And this called my attention to the presence \u2014 really, a not uncommon occurrence\u2014 of old dead trees, and scraggly old trees with just a few branches of green among the young flourishing ones in the woods around our home. I hadn\u2019t noticed them before. Wow! (Uncle Bud\u2014my name for the guardian angel who translates to me more explicitly what the platoon of my guardian angels (yes, it takes a platoon, or a village) has in store for me.) Getting older!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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