Monday 06 August 2007

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"If one has no scars, one becomes blind in the next world, but perhaps the man without scars is blind also in the imaginative world."

- Robert Bly from Iron John

Personally I could not agree more with the above. In all my years of lecturing students at tertiary institutions in Creative Process, I have become aware of the creative force in young people with a more "difficult" childhood. The reasons for a difficult childhood might vary, but students with a very "safe" childhood seem to struggle more to find a creative voice. The simple explanation would be that hurt and "scars" give us experience; a more acute awareness of our imperfect world. We have something to say, a story to tell.

Indigo Boy, Monday 6 August, Cape Town

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