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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"story",<br>"author":"underwaterwoman",<br>"permlink":"letters-from-earth-13-magic",<br>"title":"Letters from Earth: #13 MAGIC",<br>"body":"<h4>In my life,<br> creative magic dances to an elusive tune of its own. <\/h4>\n\nInspiration flows in and then out on its own schedule. I believe the best artists learn to seize the moment playfully when it's there and let it go with graciousness when it's not.\n\nElizabeth Gilbert speaks with hilarity about this intersection of the human and otherworldly,<br> in her new book,<br> \"Big Magic,<br>\" along with a number of fascinating new ideas about creativity.\n\n<h4>The book has captured my attention because lately,<br> I've been examining why I create.<\/h4>\n\nDid you know that Harper Lee,<br> the famed author of \"To Kill A Mockingbird,<br>\" never wrote anything ever again after it? For the rest of her life,<br> Lee never published again. When asked why,<br> she said: \"I'm scared. When you're at the top,<br> there's only one way to go.\" Am I the only one that finds these statements utterly tragic? What if she had decided to answer everyone's question of,<br> \"How are you going to top that?\" simply with a,<br> \"I'm not,<br>\" or \"I don't play that game.\"\n\n<h4>Quoting Elizabeth Gilbert,<br> from her new book,<br> \"Big Magic:\" <\/h4>\n\n <h6>\"Such thinking assumes that there is a 'top' - and that reaching that top (and staying there) is the only motive one has to create. Such thinking assumes that the mysteries of inspiration operate on the same scale that we do - on a limited human scale of success and failure,<br> of winning and losing,<br> of comparison and competition,<br> of commerce and reputation,<br> of units sold and influence wielded. Such thinking assumes that you must be constantly victorious - not only against your peers,<br> but also against an earlier version of your own poor self. Most dangerously of all,<br> such thinking assumes that if you cannot win,<br> then you must not continue to play.<\/h6>\n\n<h6>...But what does any of that have to do with the strange communion between the human and the magical? What does any of that have to do with faith? What does any of that have to do with the quiet glory of merely making things,<br> and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations?\"<\/h6>\n\nSo it follows,<br> that the theme of today's Letter from Earth is... MAGIC! The last few days,<br> the moon cycles nearly fullness have been so inspiring. \n\n<h4>Now tell me,<br> why do you create? <\/h4>\n\n\n![MOON-letters-earth.jpg (https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/hpiynhbhq\/image\/upload\/v1520290994\/bza1ljhw8lqpdlsdrhmk.jpg)\n\n<hr><\/hr>\n\n<h4>For the next week,<br> I'll be posting a short note from the Earth to\nhumanity in a series I'm calling 'Letters from Earth'.<\/h4>\n\n<h5>Curious to hear what nature has to say?<\/h5>\n\nThen give me a follow and leave comments\nthis week if you want me to keep the series going.\n\n<h1>***BE PART OF THE SERIES:\nSEND ME YOUR LETTERS***<\/h1><h5>Submit your 25 words or under letter from\na part of the natural world. <\/h5>\n\n<h5>Be sure to end it in a hypen (-) indicating who \nthe note is from.<\/h5>\n\n<h5>I'll create a round-up post in the next week\nfeaturing the best ones from tagged authors\nthat I've typed on special paper textures.<\/h5>",<br>"json_metadata":" \"community\":\"busy\",<br>\"app\":\"busy\/2.4.0\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\",<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/0x0\/https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/hpiynhbhq\/image\/upload\/v1520290994\/bza1ljhw8lqpdlsdrhmk.jpg\" ,<br>\"tags\":[\"story\",<br>\"poetry\",<br>\"busy\",<br>\"poem\",<br>\"contest\" " | | vote | "voter":"underwaterwoman",
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