Hi Artists, Today we’re going to find inspiration through bibliomancy (doesn’t the word itself sound like some kind of magic?). Bibliomancy is the practice of using sacred books or texts as a tool for divination.
The book was Divine Beauty by John O'Donohue. I am ashamed to say I never completely read it. It was gift to me by an old client of mine as a thank you for our work together. The page opened at this quote from Frederick Turner.
'A beautiful thing, though simple in its immediate presence, always gives us a sense of depth below depth, almost and innocent wild vertigo as one falls through its levels.'
The book, I chose//that chose me, was Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie and I opened up to a part of a poem he wrote, titled: Propagation in the Desert, the passage I pointed to was:
Vulnerably,
Tenderly,
A shoot appears
In a tentative
Mystical
Dance of creation.
Gordon and I crossed paths in 1989-90, he was a mentor and I didn’t know it. He was Hallmark Card’s Creative Paradox. I met him because I was working a temp job at Halls department store in Kansas City before moving to CA to go to graduate school. I think he is to me what Allen Ginsberg is to Ethan Hawke. I have 3 copies of his book, the same book because I keep giving it away. I love it that much. It’s funny, the page I opened to was a poem, and not just any poem but one about running organizations (specifically Hallmark) as pyramids or plum trees. The first being an Adminstrative organization and the second being a holistic organization. What this all means to me is that it’s time to read the book again AND that in my creative business to take on the image of a plum tree, to create to share and grow like the plum tree.
The book was Divine Beauty by John O'Donohue. I am ashamed to say I never completely read it. It was gift to me by an old client of mine as a thank you for our work together. The page opened at this quote from Frederick Turner.
'A beautiful thing, though simple in its immediate presence, always gives us a sense of depth below depth, almost and innocent wild vertigo as one falls through its levels.'
wow, LOVE the quote. Thank you for sharing!
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The book, I chose//that chose me, was Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie and I opened up to a part of a poem he wrote, titled: Propagation in the Desert, the passage I pointed to was:
Vulnerably,
Tenderly,
A shoot appears
In a tentative
Mystical
Dance of creation.
Gordon and I crossed paths in 1989-90, he was a mentor and I didn’t know it. He was Hallmark Card’s Creative Paradox. I met him because I was working a temp job at Halls department store in Kansas City before moving to CA to go to graduate school. I think he is to me what Allen Ginsberg is to Ethan Hawke. I have 3 copies of his book, the same book because I keep giving it away. I love it that much. It’s funny, the page I opened to was a poem, and not just any poem but one about running organizations (specifically Hallmark) as pyramids or plum trees. The first being an Adminstrative organization and the second being a holistic organization. What this all means to me is that it’s time to read the book again AND that in my creative business to take on the image of a plum tree, to create to share and grow like the plum tree.
Love it!!