Posts Tagged "ruth gendler"
Intuition
I invited Intuition to stay in my house when my roommates went North. I warned her that I am territorial and I keep the herb jars in alphabetical order. Intuition confessed that she has a “spotty employment record.” She was fired from her last job for daydreaming. When Intuition moved in, she washed all the windows, cleaned out the fireplace, planted fruit trees, and lit purple...
Read MoreWisdom
Wisdom wears an indigo jacket. She takes long walks in the purple hills at twilight pausing to meditate at an old temple near the crossroads. She was sick as a young child so she learned to be alone with herself at an early age Wisdom has a quiet mind. She likes to think about the edges where things spill into each other and become their opposites. She knows how to look at things inside and out....
Read MoreHarmony
Harmony doesn’t seem extraordinary until you have known him for a while. He knows how to be gentle, and such gentleness is surprisingly powerful. The silence around him is lyrical. If I sit in his kitchen in the late afternoon and drink ginger tea, by the time I am ready to go home the contradictions inside my head are no longer shouting at me and trying to tear each other apart He gives me...
Read MoreCreativity
Creativity is not efficient. She has a different relationship to time than most of us. A minute can last a day and a day can last an hour. She loves all the seasons. She is on intimate terms with the sun and the moon. It is New Year’s all year long at her house, what with celebrations for the Celtic, Hebrew, Tibetan, Chinese, Japanese, and other New Years too numerous to mention. Creativity...
Read MoreForgiveness
Forgiveness is a strong woman, tender and earthy and direct. Since her children have left home, she has embarked on an extended walking tour, visiting ruins and old monuments, bathing in rivers and hot springs, traveling through the small towns and large pulsing cities, tracing the current of sorrow under the stories she hears. Sometimes the city authorities and officials don’t want her...
Read MoreBoredom
Does anyone really know what Boredom is like? He rarely goes anywhere without at least one of his friends. He can’t stand to be alone .. On Sunday afternoons he goes to the bar on the corner and drinks dark beer with Futility, Rage, and Anxiety. They all have such strong personalities. In conversations with that bunch Boredom tends to get lost. It’s not that he doesn’t say...
Read MorePerseverance
Is there a school where Perseverance teaches classes? I want to meet him face to face and see what he looks like. I have heard so much about him . It is not that I want his feedback. I am sure he would tell me to “keep working.” and I already know that. It is not just me either. Offhand I can name at least three friends who are as curious as I am. One is a scholar. One is a writer....
Read MoreChange
Change wears my sister’s moccasins. He stays up late and wakes up early. He likes to come up quietly and kiss me on the back of the neck when I am at my drawing table. He wants to amuse people, and it hurts him when they yell at him. Change is very musical. but sometimes you must listen for a long time before you hear the pattern in his music. – Ruth...
Read MoreImagination
When Imagination walks, she writes letters to the earth . When she runs, her feet trace postcards to the sun. And when she dances, when she dances, she sends love letters to the stars. Some people accuse Imagination of being a liar. They don’t understand that she has her own ways of uncovering the truth. She studied journalism in junior high school. It gave her an excuse to leave school...
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