While we're still in "safe mode" on this blog, I wanted to set out a few points of embarkation that may (or may not) supplement the thematic basis of this blog.
We are artists--all of us. Or, if you simply cannot bear the self-importance of agent nouns, it will suffice to say that everyone, in some sense, can appreciate creation as both process and product, pain and salve. The purpose of this blog is to explore what we (the authors) believe is fundamental to the human spirit. As individuals, we each set forth on this expedition aboard a raft of perspective--our experiences lashed together--a raft that determines how we will feel and react to the rapids and eddies we traverse. With resolve, above all, to celebrate creativity in all of its protean forms, we embark. We do not know what awaits us on the journey; nor can we comprehend the location of its terminus. At times, we may feel inadequate. (We may feel like a child who wakes up frightened from a dream, feeling compelled to muster the courage to break the night's massive stillness with her tiny voice but uncertain as to what a cry for help will bring about. Will it wake and upset her parents? Will there even be a response?) Despite these risks, we press on out of necessity, for therein lies the impetus for our acts of creation. We will learn boldness along the way; we will lash its colors to our rafts.
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