Unwritten

A big 'thank you' to Natasha Beddingford for the inspiration of her pop song "Unwritten". It's very helpful sometimes. I think I'm finally going to put together some mix CDs of creatively-inspiring music. Trouble is that there's a lot of different styles for it and it depends on mood.

But I still think that it's just wonderful to be driving down the road and have a track like "Unwritten" come on the radio. It's one of those songs that carries the reminder and communicates the call to create. Beautiful stuff, really, both for its own aesthetic merit, but also because it catches you at odd times when you aren't paying attention. It's like the siren's call from the imam, beckoning the Createful to attend to the Making.

Kind of inspiring, to do work like that. I think I feel a poem coming on. ;) I'll let you know how it turns out.

Or I'll just space out for a couple of minutes while I'm supposed to be writing job descriptions and flesh out a rough draft.

The Call of the Making
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Attend to the call of the Making
Attend to the call of the dream
Our lives are the canvas before us
Our hearts dancing gold in the stream.

We live by the flow and the measure,
The seas at high tide and low ebb.
We speak with the voices of angels
And conquer our fear and our dread.

We dance with the passion of demons,
We know both the Grace and the Fall,
For we are the humans between them;
As artists we drink with them all.

Come to the place of the Making
Come to the place of rebirth.
From nothing to something it moves us,
The Muse manifesting on Earth.

Attend to the Call, ye Createful,
The imam is making is call,
Submit to Art's will and be grateful
The Muse will move through you at all.

Attend to the Call of the Making,
Attend to the Call of the Dream,
Ye artists and poets and dancers,
This vision of yours needs to be.