"I keep my doubts in a box with the things I know." - Virgil Russell from Percival Everett
What can you put inside boxes? What needs to move outside? If you hide something inside, an opportunity to discover magic and mystery waits. How long will it wait?
Boxes also mean limitation but Jack-in-the-Boxes permit "out springing." Then discovery occurs.
From East of Eden by John Steinbeck:
You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and you said,
"Why don't you make something for me."
I asked what you wanted, and you said,
"A box.'
"What for?"
"To put things in"
"What things?"
"Whatever you have," you said.
"Well, here's your box. Nearly everything I have is in it, and it is not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts - the pleasure of design and some despair and the indescribable joy of creation. And on top of these are all the gratitude and love I have for you and it's still not full."
Creative Write: Write about an object that has meaning for you. Describe it in all its dimensions and see where the freewriting takes you. Would you keep doubts in a box with the things you know?
Boxes also mean limitation but Jack-in-the-Boxes permit "out springing." Then discovery occurs.
From East of Eden by John Steinbeck:
You came upon me carving some kind of little figure out of wood and you said,
"Why don't you make something for me."
I asked what you wanted, and you said,
"A box.'
"What for?"
"To put things in"
"What things?"
"Whatever you have," you said.
"Well, here's your box. Nearly everything I have is in it, and it is not full. Pain and excitement are in it, and feeling good or bad and evil thoughts and good thoughts - the pleasure of design and some despair and the indescribable joy of creation. And on top of these are all the gratitude and love I have for you and it's still not full."
Creative Write: Write about an object that has meaning for you. Describe it in all its dimensions and see where the freewriting takes you. Would you keep doubts in a box with the things you know?
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