Quotes
If you haven’t seen or read Sir Ken Robinson, I highly recommend you do. For clarity on creativity, schools and a great wit, watch him on TED and here’s a day of work in his memory:
This was a brilliant chat about writer’s privilege
A potter is one of the few people left who uses his natural faculties of heart, head and hand in balance – the whole man. His is a way of life. Good pots require the ardor of vocation and the devotion of a lifetime.
Bernard Leach, Belief and Hope 1951
If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
“The Beauty of Life,” a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design (19 February 1880), later published in Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878 – 1881 (1882).
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William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow.
On Children
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
Lovely photos of a great childhood Grown up now, but these photos are of a French girl called Tippi who spent her first ten years in Africa “on safari” as her parents were photographers.
This woman is amazing; I have long admired her work, I would always recommend picking up any of her books and just picking a page, they’re all inspiring.