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The Magic Screen
In January I felt the need to update my office window in town. I no longer am using the space as an office for a whole list of reasons, but I have a fabulous window on Main Street here in town. I had measured the center window and the 2 side panels. Stared at it, and suddenly decided a cardboard etch-a-sketch would become the installation. I am the worst at capturing the process. I just want to…
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Spritual Site
It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes flat, the tooth falls out, there will be a hundred meals without mustard. The poem gets written. I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame. Neither do I have guilt. My responsibility is not to the ordinary, or the timely. It does not include mustard, or teeth. It does not extend to the lost button, or the beans in the pot. My loyalty is to the inner vision, whenever and howsoever it may arrive. If I have a meeting with you at three o'clock, rejoice if I am late. Rejoice even more if I do not arrive at all. There is no other way work of artistic worth can be done. And the occasional success, to the striver, is worth everything. The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
Mary Oliver in “Upstream”
Keep the Creative Urge Alive
During the winter holiday season, I often speak on the subjects of Joy and Happiness. Both are similar concepts, and are very important ingredients in a bright and productive life.
For now, I’d like to talk about joy. Although this past years’ joyous Christmas season has come and gone, you should not give up on finding joy in your daily life!
The greatest joy and satisfaction in my work as a coach is to support my clients. It brings me happiness to help them as they pursue their creative urge. I find satisfaction in my life when I see them striving and succeeding in building better lives for themselves, for their families, and for their careers and businesses.
The creative urge I speak of is an in-born desire to create a better life within the sphere of our passions and interests. Although I believe this urge is within each one of us, it is unfortunate that so many of us suppress our creative urges because of petty fears and a self-defeating lack of courage. This is where my support as a personal coach comes into play. It is my job to professionally encourage and challenge my clients to succeed.
Maybe you or someone you know needs to find this joy. If you have a friend, associate, or client who wants to be encouraged and challenged as they pursue the creative urge in their life or business, please give them my card. I am always here to serve you.
Hardy Hasenfuss, Your Joy and Happiness Coach
Between creative urge and action is procrastination. A space filled by the one thing that can destroy an idea.... Doubt.
Hubbubbaloo Creative
Sometimes I sew shirts. I won't claim to be abld to do it on a professional level, but the act of creation gives me immense pleasure.
Coltrane on Van Gogh, the Creative Urge and Self-Actualization
The year he began recording A Love Supreme, John Coltrane had a clarity of purpose. In his excellent book Coltrane: The Story of a Sound, Ben Ratliff excerpts a 1962 letter from Coltrane to Don DeMichael, the editor of Down Beat. Coltrane reflects on what compels the artist to create and to continue to create, despite adversity:
The “jazz” musician (you can have this term along with several others that have been foisted upon us) does not have to worry about a lack of positive and affirmative philosophy. It’s build in us. The phrasing, the sound of the music attests this fact. We are naturally endowed with it. You can believe all of us would have perished long ago if this were not so. As to community, the whole face of the globe is our community. You see, it is really easy for us to create. We are born with this feeling that just comes out no matter what conditions exist.
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I was reading a book on the life of Van Gogh today, and I had to pause and think of that wonderful and persistent force–the creative urge. The creative urge was in this man who found himself so much at odds with the world he lived in, and in spite of all the adversity, frustrations, rejections and so forth–beautiful and living art came forth abundantly…if only he could be here today.
Truth is indestructible. It seems history shows (and it’s the same way today) that the innovator is more often than not met with some degree of condemnation; usually according to the degree of departure from the prevailing modes of expression or what have you. Change is always so hard to accept. We also see that these innovators always seek to revitalize, extend and reconstruct the status quo in their given fields, whatever is needed. Quite often they are the rejects, outcasts, sub-citizens, etc. of the very societies to which they bring so much sustenance.
Often they are people who endure great personal tragedy in their lives. Whatever the case, whether accepted or rejected, rich or poor, they are forever guided by that great and eternal constant–the creative urge. Let us cherish it and give all praise to God. Thank you and best wishes to all.
In 1966, at a press conference a the Tokyo Prince Hotel, Coltrane expanded on this personal philosophy to include all people, not just artists. A year before his death, he spoke of his own self-actualization, growing to the “best good.”
I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be. This is what I want to do, this is my belief: that I’m supposed to grow to the best good that I can get to. As I’m going there, becoming this, and if I ever become this, it will just come out of the horn. So whatever I will be, it will be. I’m not interested in trying to say what it will be, I don’t know. But I believe that good will only bring good.
Interviewer: “What would you like to be in ten years?”
Coltrane: “I would like to be a saint.”
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