by Tammy Parker
3. August 2011 05:29
A few years ago I started looking at my journaling in a different way. I began to see it as a poem. I had a dear friend in his 90s spurring me on and seeing the beauty in what I was saying. He wasn't exactly without credential himself. He was a minister, a teacher of esthetics, a satirist, and a beacon of light for me.
During the time he was dying, I had just begun to mix essential oils into perfumes and oils to create a healing method of coping with losing him. He was my muse. Where would I be without writing for him, for showing him my new scents. Then I found out he had NO sense of smell. None! So I was on my own. I had to trust my own nose.
I came across a quote by Samuel Johnson this morning. I totally rewrote it for myself. (My poetic license has not expired.)
Always set a high value on spontaneous Art. She whose inclination prompts her to cultivate her Art of its own accord will give to her more than when she has been at pains to attach others to her.
I am not going to put quotation marks around it since I rewrote the whole freaking quote. Oops.
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