Today Tim completed his 30th story video and tomorrow is Day 40 of lockdown here (at least, from the day I have counted it). I'm not sure what to say about these milestones except for the obvious. Time passes while we are doing the stuff that makes up ordinary life. That which makes life significant, worthwhile, or good, is not found in the big, public moments but in our small, often unseen lived experiences.
It makes me wonder what it means to be human. Is it to seek connection, to find ways to walk with one another through the ways we experience life, its goodness and its ills? Is it to make meaning, to take the hours and activities that make up our days - our meals, our bursts of energy, our times of rest - and fill them with meaning so that these things are somehow containers of something more?
Certainly, to be human is to seek and to create beauty.
Seeking beauty in the daily turning of the day towards evening ...
... and creating beauty from whatever is at hand. Keziah is amazing at binding journals and making book covers for them. They make gorgeous and unique gifts, when we are eventually able to pass them on to others.
Fatima Bhutto said in a recent interview that creativity comes from pain. Perhaps there is some truth in the idea that the experiences in life that squeeze us invite us to drop into a deeper interaction with what it means to be human - incredibly gifted and yet limited and broken - and from that place a sort of creativity can flow, or at least be dripped out.
[Following this post, Tim put his own thoughts on creativity intoa video post here. Do check it out!]
In between videos, Tim has done his fair share of creating. And most recently at the lathe, where he experimented with making a wooden chalice out of three different types of wood. It has turned out really beautifully and is waiting for a further finishing before we get to bring it inside.
Looks like it will hold at least a third of a bottle of wine, which might be overkill for sharing communion on a Friday night ...!
But then, you know ... pandemic.
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