Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
Because even though the magic is life, it is also death. It is Sirens wailing their song of beauty while we dash ourselves against their rocks. The magic is a headlong run into the light, which may turn out to be an oncoming train.
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
It takes a community, this creative life, this risk of rejection, disappointment, failure as we give of our time and our energy and our work in generosity, without demanding affirmation or reward. Believing that creativity is first and foremost a gift to be given, not a commodity to be traded.
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
But while imagination can sometimes pay the bills, I’ve realized we must stop asking it to. The convenient deus ex machina resolution to my own financial crisis bothered me for a few months, but in the end, it turned out the money from The Starlight Folio wasn’t needed to make this
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
It is the function of all art to give us some perception of an order in life, by imposing an order upon it. ~ T.S. Eliot
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
from Becoming Myself by Stasi Eldredge
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
from Leaf by Niggle by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
“The world needs more beauty than the Met and Carnegie Hall can provide—much, much more. It needs beauty and creativity on every fireplace mantel, over every basket of chips and salsa. And the largely unsung heroes who provide those things are heroes indeed.” He smiles. “That’s beautiful, Kelsey. You should be a writer.”
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
“Not forget, I do not think. But… endure.”
Tracy Higley • Nightfall in the Garden of Deep Time
from Garden Maker by Christie Purifoy