Monday, October 18, 2010

Life's Savor

This blog is all about Life's Savor - Savoring Life and discovering what you think "the good life" is. Our country is ailing, flailing about, and looking for our own unique answer to this, life's most pressing question (well, once the food is in the belly and the clothes are on the bod). We all are searching, often desperately, for "THE GOOD LIFE." Often what defines a culture, its art, its shadows, its beauty, its food, its literature, its flavor - is precisely the communal development of an answer to this question - What is the good life?

In America, we deliberately choose to have individual answers to this question. I celebrate and appreciate this. However, what we come up with collectively will, nevertheless, be the aesthetics of our country. Our creative explorations and interests somewhat define our economics (particularly in our "Service"  (read entertainment and necessities) economy. Our choices and inclinations weave a pattern of American spending and collection to create our collective fingerprint which gets left on the coffee table of history.Our patchwork quilt of individual squares (made up of our buying habits, interests, Google searches and wall hangings)  is viewed front and center at the art gallery of the world. What do you want your own square to express, and how do you want the stitching to link you to the rest of us? Do you even think to take care of your searching and procuring habits?

This blog is a great place to start. You can take a moment today to answer these wonderful questions for yourself as a starting place.

1. What are the three most important qualities in a person?

2. What are the three achievements, activities, or creations that I am most proud of myself for?

3. What are the three things I would do if I had no worries about money, time, or access in any way?

Please post your own answers if you wish. Discussions are the fleshing out of the process. There are no wrong answers.

1 comment:

  1. 1. Honesty, an open mind and the ability to see beauty in the darker side
    2. making it through 2 pregnancies and a few years now of having 2 boys without hurting anyone, my painting series the "playthings", teaching some very bright students and encouraging them to pursue art
    3. travel, create more and find where home should be without worry about the job that will support it...

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