The Christmas season always makes me contemplative.  The incarnation of the Divine is more than I can really comprehend.  And tonight I read something that gave me another “aha” moment--Martin Cothran’s article, “The Classical Idea of Nature.”  Cothran reflects on the effects of Darwinism in our understanding of nature and how radically different our modern view is from the Classical view of nature. In the art world, I hear much about the “process” of making art. Some even seem to infer that the process is what is important, more important than the ends.  That view has  always bothered me a bit and Cothran has made me see why.  I’m going to ponder his article and wrestle with ideas with the goal of reaching a meaningful result, not just a process of wrestling with ideas. 

"Snow on the Fig Bush"

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