and so it seems labor over a creative life is not for a select few, not just for the broken, but for all. for to create beauty is to walk in the footsteps of god, something that demands we believe in the power of love.
i cannot make the artist's way easier for myself, or my children, or the others that i love. for the labor itself is what births the love. and, in the end, far more valuable than beauty or art or talent...is love.
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It is difficult, is it not, especially when they are young. The ability to let them be, grow, and do on their own is an art of its own I think.
and it only gets harder - i have a couple of young adults now...
I know the feeling. Had to 'let go' almost altogether a year ago, and it has in fact got only more painful. In some sense you feel something like love even more strongly but it so bound up with loneliness, self pity, worry...
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