April 5, 2010
I am not a particularly religious person. As a teenager I decided that I probably wasn’t going to be struck down by an unseen deity. I also realised that there was – and is – a rich relationship between religion and religious institutions and creative endeavours. I have this great aesthetic appreciation of religious art and music and narratives even though I don’t approach them with the devotion a true believer might.
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May 1, 2009
Today I start work on a new project, tentatively titled Heartbroken and Grieving. (An hour and 13 minutes have elapsed since writing the first sentence of this blog entry and the second; procrastination is a formidable opponent.) It is something I have been thinking about for months but ‘thinking’ isn’t the same as ‘doing.’ And even now that I have resolved to do it, there is still considerable resistance.
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