DC Artist Interrupted

This is a quote my sister sent to me the other day.  It provides some food for thought and reminds my yet again why I love the concept of Artist, Interrupted. We had a wonderful dress rehearsal for the concert this past weekend. I was telling one of the performers that even if no one comes (which I already know won't be the case)  I would consider the concert a success because I saw women bettering themselves by taking the time to do something creatively beautiful and difficult.

“Woman’s life today is tending more and more toward the state William James describes so well in the German word, “Zerrissenheit—torn-to-pieces-hood.”  She cannot live perpetually in “Zerrissenheit.”   She will be shattered into a thousand pieces.  On the contrary, she must consciously encourage those pursuits which oppose the centrifugal forces of today.  Quiet time alone, contemplation, prayer, music, a centering line of thought or reading, of study or work.  It can be physical or intellectual or artistic, any creative life proceeding from oneself.  It need not be an enormous project or a great work.  But it should be something of one’s own.”

--Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea