Imagining the Wonderful
August 30, 2009
A lot of thoughts and feelings buzzed through me as I examined the photos that my good friend Susan had sent.
Susan is in her 60′s and is exploring her own creative story of what life is about. Her work with clay is daring and original, yet what I find most wonderful is her interpretation and imagination that turns the mundane into the magical.
The photo below shows her most recent project, entitled ‘The Inner Planetary Incubation/Feeding/Imagineering System’.
The Inner Planetary System
Here is her description of how it came about …
“The (back) wall had a lot of pipes and meters and did not say anything except utilitarian. Last summer I looked at it and decided that something needed to be done.
The energy as Erik and I worked on it was magical. We worked on it at night when it was cooler, and we dipped in and out of the pool to cool down and have think time.
It felt like one of the GREAT vacations that one takes. Friends would stop by and give input. Some I took, others I smiled at and put on the back burner. Wonderful food. It was VERY much the way I see the new world working. Lots of ease, grace and a ton of joy, plus lots of new ways of looking at things!”
And here is her story of what it’s all about …
“All of the Galaxies send some of their babies to planet earth to experience this planet and the good things that we have here. Things like love, caring, emotions, imagination, colors, skipping, singing, chocolate. What are some other things that you think that they might enjoy learning while they are here? (This is really important because it will make their time on planet earth even better.) I can program it into the robots to give it to the cosmic babies.
The robots take care of them until they are ready to go out into the world. There are families that will take them in and treat them like their own children and share more of our ways with them. These cosmic children then send messages back to their own planet about life on planet earth. And the cosmic children share things from their planets with their earth families.
At the station there are many robots that each have a different job.
One of the Robots
One weighs them. One is in charge of the food, for each cosmic baby needs it’s own diet so that it will be able to adjust to planet earth’s food (each planet has it’s own type of food and their bodies are not used to our food).
Another robot teaches them to laugh (this is an earth thing), while another teaches them to cry (another earth thing).
One robot teaches them how to choose what they want to do or not do (only on this planet do we get to learn about what we want and do not want).
There is even one that teaches them about wearing bows in their hair if they want to do that or how to hit a base ball. There are sooooooooooooooo many things a baby MUST learn for this planet.
As you can tell there is a lot to being on planet earth, but it is the most colorful place to live and the most fun!”
So I replied to her, with my suggestions about what the robots could also be programmed to teach the Cosmic babies …
- Curiosity and Exploration – finding out how things work, taking them apart and putting them back together in new ways
- Magical Eyes – the ability to look with wonder, awe and delight at anything and find the beauty in it
- Delight through Connection – feeling a connection with everything, and changing everything through the delight that they have for all of it
Also, the babies can be taught to be whoever they want to be and they can learn how to make the (seemingly) impossible become possible. That should keep them busy!!!
A few final words from Susan about the experience.
“For me the best part of it was in the doing/playing with it. There were no rules. It was done with ease and grace and laughter and lots of good food. Some wine (not much) but not whining. Lots of think time – most of that while in the pool staring at it. People stopped by to add an idea here and there. Sometimes they would get sucked into the joy of the whole thing. This is the way I see the new world being. Creating with such ease.”
We all have the potential for changing the ordinary into the magical. It requires only a starting point, a storyline, a sense of exploration and boundless fun. So there are two questions that I ask you, as the reader.
- What would you give the Cosmic babies?
- What project are you inspired to embark on now?
You can add your suggestions below.