One aspect I like about cruises is that in many-many ways the journey, the days getting there are just as important or maybe more important than the destination. Days at sea give me time to explore, to relax, to listen, to read, to think, try new foods, new drinks, to communicate with strangers that I will never see again. By doing this I learn new things, and I learn about myself.
Making art is very much the same. The process, the journey of creating art, gives us time to explore, to study, to try new things, to communicate in new ways. Someone asked Thomas Edison how it felt to have failed thousands of times testing filaments for incandescent lights that never glowed or quickly burned out. His response was I have not failed, I have discovered thousands of things what will not work.
Art can be like that, we learn from the experiment, the practice, the journey.
I am on a digital detox. This post was written ahead of time and scheduled to appear today. I have not missed posting at least once per day in over a decade. While on this detox, I will not have internet access many days, when I do have access it will be limited. Please continue to leave comments, but I may not reply to comments. I will read comments when I can. Normal service will resume in late May.
Here we really differ. I found cruise days at sea boring as batshit, and I really missed the internet. Lessons learnt but too late. I won't cruise again.
ReplyDeleteI will cruise again, maybe shorter runs next year.
DeleteI'm glad this mode of transportation works for you. I'm more like Andrew above. I did it once and discovered it wasn't for me.
ReplyDeleteI want to see the eastern and southern Caribbean, I think that cruise may be very different, younger, louder.
DeleteFailure isn't fun but you can almost learn from it.
ReplyDeleteLearning things I will never do again.
DeleteAn excellent post! I have always loved that Thomas Edison quote. People view failure as a negative. But it's not, just as his quote says.
ReplyDeleteWhen I get home, I have new things to try.
DeleteLife...the grand journey.
ReplyDeleteAnd we smell the roses along the way.
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