nounsnlies:carpentrix:It’s a collaboration, making a spoon. As it iswith making a vessel out of clay
nounsnlies:carpentrix:It’s a collaboration, making a spoon. As it iswith making a vessel out of clay or a sculpture out of steel. To impose yourwill and force, to demand the material do what you want, take the shape youwant, bow to your preconceptions for what it should be—it will notwork this way. A spoon might exist in the end, but something will be missingfrom it, and you will feel that lack in your hand when you stir the soup. Ahumility is required, a willingness, in any moment, to realize, this is movingin a direction I did not anticipate, and the courage to respond to what iscoming into being. To ask and attend, what shape is being asking for, how can I help it be that? This is the way we are elevated by the process and in the process.Tell me, Will. What shape is being asked of you? -- source link