connecting stories: 06/30/12

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Road Trip to a Storytelling Conference.

Stearns family farm, CT

Sunset in NY

huge thunder storm


working in the car

Cincinnati

A long drive to Cincinnati, OH. Crazy and fun! Started in MA to Carolyn Stearns farm on CT 900+ miles to Covington, KY.

"Art ...enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light."

"Why do we sacrifice so much energy to our art? Not in order to teach others but to learn with them what our existence, our organism, our personal and unrepeatable experience have to give us; to learn to break down the barriers which surround us and to free ourselves from the breaks which hold us back, from the lies about ourselves which we manufacture daily for ourselves and for others; to destroy the limitations caused by our ignorance and lack of courage; in short, to fill the emptiness in us: to fulfill ourselves. Art is neither a state of the soul (in the sense of some extraordinary, unpredictable moment of inspiration) nor a state of man (in the sense of a profession or social function). Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light." --Jerzy Grotowski