Monday, August 8, 2011

Thoreau

Thoreau writes eloquently of the deceptive appearance of TIME. It is quantifiable and measurable; however, beneath our need to contain it, TIME possesses an eternal, elusive quality.  I think this is also true of the well of CREATIVITY that exists within and without us. We barely dip beneath its surface,  but on occasion some of have been lucky enough, through pure clumsy accident,  to drink deep.
"TIME is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is the pebbly stars."

Henry David Thoreau
Walden