Something I found very interesting in my reading today was the binary created between what is understood as "rational" is uncorrupted - and what is understood as "natural" as corrupted. The natural being influences from the body like, sensations, emotions, desires and that which is understood as rational as something that we can control. A simple example to illustrate this thought, for me is the artist who creates within the lines and one who creates outside of the lines. The artist who creates within the lines makes things that look and are understood at "real." i.e. Michelangelo painted God to look like man - something everyone could understand and relate to. A rational image of man, versus Picasso's images of man and beast in Guernica. One image was created by painting within the lines and within an individuals ability to visually understand how things can been seen, and the other image created with emotion, desires, and sensations and outside the lines or outside of how an individual understood how he/she is viewing things. It comes down to perspective - in short both are created, reason and the "rational" as well as the "natural." So why the binary? Do we just want to argue with one another? Does one have to be right? Is there not room for both? One cannot exist without the other. In the end it comes down to power - which can control the other. And that is scary.

So I will keep on working outside the lines - for I believe that is where I am supposed to be and I am grateful for my "reasonable" other. I think of this photo I took recently of snow on a branch - the "rational/reasonable" individual will break down the snowflakes into how they are created and their geometry and material make up - I see beauty, and softness, and quiet. Both perspectives are something we have created to communicate. It's just a marvelous thing to think of this photo that way.

Today's thoughts come from my continued reading of "The Resurgence of the Real" by Charlene Spretnak.