The habit of art
A long time ago when I was an undergraduate studying English Literature, I happened upon a quote from Flannery O’Connor where she described the importance of establishing the habit of art. I was thinking about that today when the question of creativity came up in a discussion about other things.
In a world where there is no time – you make the time for what sings and who sings to you. You start discerning and narrowing what is important and what isn’t. So while we lament the time we don’t have to do certain things we wish to do, we end up doing the things that are important. As my ex father in law was want to say – some things are better to think about than to actually do.
I told a friend of mine who was off to start on an entrepreneurial path that while I thought I didn’t have the energy level these days for a start up the truth is that a start up would energize me. He agreed. And so it is with creativity. I blog every day because I have established a habit of art. Not because I have time. And because blogging gives me an area to be creative, which in turn feeds me and yields its own energy and time allotment.
June 25th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
I like this. I’ve been wondering for a long time why I spend the time I do blogging. I’ll refer future inquiries from Hubby to you. But it’s true that we can find time for the things that are really important to us. Trying not to feel guilty about the things I don’t find time for is my problem. (I was brought up in the 1950’s remember!)