The great thing about traveling is it allows you to toss new stuff into your creative blender. To learn new things and to see new things. For instance, though I have traveled to all 50 states here in the U.S. I did something yesterday that was a first for me and a nice surprise. In flying from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Minneapolis, Minnesota yesterday I flew over Lake Michigan.
Not a big thing, but after being landlocked all winter — looking out at the blue water and the blue ski was a nice change of scenery. Enough so that I pulled out my little digital camera and took the above shot. (The blue under the wing is actually the lake.)
One thing I learned while in Michigan was five time nominated producer/director/writer John Boorman has written several books. (“Money Into Light: The Emerald Forest: A Diary,” “Bright Dreams, Hard Knocks,” and “Adventures of a Suburban Boy.”)
Boorman is most known for his films Deliverance, Hope and Glory, and Excalibur. And at age seventy-three he is still at it, currently in production in an animated version of the quintessential Midwestern tail The Wizard of Oz.
Just this morning I found a quote from Boorman that is apparently well known but that I had never heard or read:
“What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.”
John Boorman
So I came back from Michigan with a new vision to read Boorman’s books and see the films of his I haven’t seen and revisit those I have.
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