How can I make my work more entertaining?
How about playing a Sting tune or maybe an Abba song?
How about I use some visuals, yeah get the audience to look at something else besides my bent out of shape mouth and the black bags under my eyes.
Something colourful and bright.
Something fast and furious.
How about I include some kinesthetic activities in there just to make sure I hit all those wonderful multiple intelligences?
We can sit in a community circle and talk about all the love that is happening in the world around us.
we can hug and smile and then
we can make tabouli together, we can eat it too... together.
Now does that sound more entertaining? Does it?
Does it?
BUT
that's not it
It, has nothing to do with that
It, has nothing to do with anything.
I don't want to share with you my tabouli anymore.
I really don't
I want to share with you my rage.
I want to scream like a lunatic,and swear like a hysteric, I want to show you my rage.
now tell me this, if you had agreed to stop fighting with someone and had set the date for after the weekend, would you then spend the whole weekend beating up this someone?
Would you decide to spend the weekend dropping 200,000 cluster bombs on a city as a going away present?
Please humour me and entertain the idea just once, just for today, just for a minute or two?
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4 comments:
I think that the longer you keep anger going, the more hatred their is in the world. Just for the sake of peace and love, I'd ask you to keep your disappointment private; not to debate on whether who is right and wrong, bad or evil. It just keeps it all alive.
I guess, it is not quiet the comment you were hoping to read, sorry about that!
I am sure though that creation of beauty, honesty invites for more.
love to you,
Scarlett
Hi Ikhti
it's me
i read your whole blog and i miss you a lot!
being a mum is...........: (
so where are you at now?!
great to see you creating.
here is my (old) site:
cherilenechan@blogspot.com
send me an email
loved your writings
xx
I believe that rage should not be suppressed or kept private. Ani DiFranco says it best: "'cause silence is violence in women and poor people if more people were screaming then i could relax" creativity changes as do the tools you use to foster an idea or a feeling. Your tool is not only the tabouli you make..it's the text you write. Very powerful and humorous. I love the blog about the history of the tabouli performer. I say keep on raging and making tabouli and writing words that are as tasty as your ingredients and as harsh as rage can be. I, for one, would love to read it :) Rania
i seem to agree more with red's comment than with agnes's comment.
i am neither an artist nor a psychologist, but I fail to see how keeping one's anger to oneself can be of any help. Nevertheless, I agree that keeping anger alive is not a productive thing to do. I really think it is a matter of how one expresses and articulates his/her anger, or any other negative emotion for that matter.
Art is a great way of doing so. it is able to create a healthy attitude towards one's negative emotions. In that sense art is therapeutic for both the individual and society.
I still so not understand why the atrocities of the lebanese civil war are not yet part of the public sphere, and for that I primarily blame lebanese artists.
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