Creative or Crazy?

Creative or Crazy?

Malformed or Beautiful?

Malformed or Beautiful?

Is this a tree? It doesn’t look normal. Its roots are where its trunk should be.

Could this indeed be the Tree for Our Times?

It shouldn’t

exist. It’s all wrong.

Its branches are elephantine bridges between two vertical structures. Or are they branches? What to call individual elements when they don’t correspond to pre-ordained ideas of Tree? This creature is uncategisorable. It is a misfit. It is alone.

And yet … and yet …

It stands proud on a hill, breathing the salt of the ocean. It has generated its own ecosystem. It offers shelter and shade, succour and sustenance.

And yet … and yet … it thrives. It drinks moisture from the sandstone cliff. It has rich, shiny leaves. It curves, curls and grows. It doesn’t hide or go away just because it’s different.

I find it exquisite.

I find it exquisite

Long ago, someone carved deep into its horizontal branch-trunk the phrase, ‘The Nature of Nature’.

The Nature …

Yes.

… of Nature

Let’s celebrate the Nature of Nature.

The Nature of Nature is winding, tangled, messy. The Nature of Nature is strange and mysterious. The Nature of Nature is not neatly boxed or compartmentalised. The Nature of Nature contains its own powerful life force, encompassing old, new, great and small, as well as death and birth.

The Nature of Creativity

is wacky, wild

and non-conformist.

We need to cultivate

odd, beauteous creativity

in our world.

Tree?
Root or branch?
Branch or trunk?
Wild Creativity
must be cultivated.

We really do.

10 thoughts on “The Nature of Nature”

I am with you on that. 🙂

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Art and Soul Space on January 9, 2018 at 10:23 am said:

That gladdens me. Good to know Gallivanta is with me. xx

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Unique – look at how the word “unique” fits the bill sometimes.

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Art and Soul Space on January 9, 2018 at 10:24 am said:

Unique is …well… a unique and wonderful kind of word and concept, is it not?

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- lindasschaub on January 9, 2018 at 11:03 pm said:
  
  I like the word “unique” and I always use it in a wonderful way … like “wow” or different. But I like being a little different than the resdt of the crowd. 🙂
  
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  - Art and Soul Space on January 10, 2018 at 9:17 am said:
    
    You’ve inspired me, Linda, to use the word as an exclamation of delight.
    
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    - lindasschaub on January 10, 2018 at 10:12 am said:
      
      Good deal! Some people think using that word is just being disparaging – it is not. I love marching to the beat of a different drum – I think you do too Sally.
      
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      - Art and Soul Space on January 11, 2018 at 9:22 pm said:
        
        I think you think correct about the different drum beats. Doo bee doo ta tum ta dum.
        
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