Don't you find a lot of the art you see is similarly motivated? "I want to make art..." Aviary has just announced...
And she does and I really like what she's doing: that whole creative thing though needs to find something to believe in other than "Pizza or cakes or wine or coffee" and the Esca Breakfast table committee has agreed as much - but I suppose that pizza or cakes or wine or coffee believe in companionship and friendship and giving life and sharing life with the other person(s).
A friend said to me once that he felt that companionship was the thing he wanted most in life. Makes sense if you think about breaking bread together, com (with) pane (bread), or sharing in the fellowship of the table of heaven.
We're sitting here at the long table with Brian my newly christened Apple (and the others are silent for a moment while I type this - an angel has passed) and we're having the fellowship of the wayfarers and the pilgrims: we don't know who's going to sit within conversational reach of the discussion and what might spill over to feed or spoil from our friendship.
(I've now been accused of having computionship with Brian - I asked if I could change his name to Bryonee as we seem to spend so much time together these days and I might have to confess to my Priest about our relationship - Bryonee would be easier to say in the confessional than Brian; still...)
Aviary was commenting that amongst the un-privileges of the South Kensington Cafe classes (when she was living there) was the solitary trip to Pret a Manger, looking around at the other solitary pretters. Seems it was almost always the opposite of a visit to the real manger.
But too often, to recapitulate, the motivation of the management loses the vision of the firestarters... the Ben and Jerry's and the Seattle Coffee company folk and the Walt Disney's and the rest, and then the dark morning constellation of the Starbucks riseth from the cash-till altar fires of vision with less than healing in it's wings...
Meanwhile, Aviary is wondering how many Robbie's are in Coltrane - (Ant taught Hagrid fly fishing we've just discovered - for Salmon apparently.)
Oh well...
This needs a little explanation (for those who were born after Kate and Wills); the Seattle Coffee company used to be this great cafe chain in about 1996 or 7ish - then the mighty megalith of Deathstarbucks bought them out and transformed this homegrown wonder into corporate nonsense.
Maybe that's the eyes of nostalgia.
(also, Robbie Coltrane used to collect classic American cars - Buicks and the like - guess Hagrid would need something with a bit of extra dragon room.)
Still, I think the point is that our common humanity is the building ground of our relationships - not our political or economic usefulness. Is this incredibly obvious? I think we may have lost sight of the fact in society that....
"We are all the honoured guests on the jewelled dance floor of God"
Every one of us. Even if our dance card is empty and our gown a bit ragged.
Be kind to your fellow guests!
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