Watch: SNL’s Sarah Palin Hillary Clinton Sketch

Just in case you missed Saturday Night Live’s sketch with Tina Fey (come on…we saw THAT coming, didn’t we?) and Amy Poehler…

To Touch/Feel: Earth in your Hands

It’s humbling, really. We’ve become such a clean society that we’ve forgotten what it feels like to get your hands dirty, to dig your fingers in moist soil to plant something fresh, pull up a weed, or just scoop up some dirt to make a mud pie.

Dig into the earth soon. Let it comfort you knowing you are connected to something far more expansive than you can see, imagine, or know. Dig up a part of your world that draws a continuous line to other countries, cultures, and lives. Whether covered by water, forest, foliage or pavement, we all are grounded on top of something that continuously shifts, changes, allows us to grow and ultimately become a part of someday.

Feel some earth. From this humble gesture, you can feel mighty.

See: wisdom from a champ

So, I love Rocky. With wisdom like this, though, who can blame me?

Enjoy this clip.

To See: Jackson Pollock

Many will argue that their child, or an elephant, could do what Jackson Pollock did to canvas. Maybe so, but I say there was probably no one better at surrendering to an organic creative process.

He let the paint be what it is and do what it does. He not only accepted how paint splatters and globs, runs and pours, he adored the way it moved and danced across the canvas. He played with it. He called it “action painting” and dribbled and drizzled it saying, “The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.”

Usually artists, like some of us in our everyday lives, try to control the outcome. We pause, we plan, we are careful, we are cautious – making sure that we get things juuuuust right. The end result of being so careful causes worry, dread, self-doubt, fear, loathing, procrastination, and stress.

It really seems so counter-intuitive. I mean, can we really control what people are? We can definitely have an effect, but in the end sometimes accepting what situations, circumstances, people, things are is really the beauty of all of it.

I love how Pollock really worked with what he had in a natural way. I learn from him. I admire him. I’m too much of a perfectionist. I need things to be just so. I am learning to breathe and let go: let things do what they need to do, let them dance, evolve naturally, and love them dearly for it. In the end, I will have my own masterpiece called life.

Copyright © 2008 by Kelley Taylor

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