April 2009 Archives

love the questions

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I have been sorting through a kiln load of glazed pots. It was filled with experiments of a red clay mix and slip ideas and glaze thickness.

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I have cleaned the bottoms of plates and stared at them like books written in a foreign language. Taking photographs for an upcoming exhibition was like unlocking stuck doors.

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On a wet April first I walk and pick daffodils and put them in new vases as answers to questions.

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My daughter a college freshman has been with me for two weeks. I have revisited things I read at her age and she called today back at school struggling with questions for next year. I was reminded of letters to a young poet. And find its still applicable.

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"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."

Letters to a young poet by Rainer Maria Rilke


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