a matryoshka of possibilities
We are all engaged in two projects: living life, and telling stories about it. Our lives as lived are often chaotic, jumbled, aimless. They suggest no obvious purpose. Think of William James’s “blooming, buzzing confusion,” or what Joan Didion called “the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” We make this chaos workable, as Didio... See more
The mind immediately wants to make sense out of what we’ve created. Often, these stories are the familiar ones that we are used to telling ourselves about our life; instead, we want to make space for the process to offer new insights, stories, and visions.
Adina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom
