I am about to leave for an exciting week-long festival in Canada on "The Source of the Creative Impulse," or "Creativity and the Theater of Life." This festival honors the late musician and philosopher Dr. Kenneth G. Mills, whose life was filled with creativity and mentoring of artists in a number of disciplines. One of my favorite statements of Dr. Mills' on creativity and its Source is as follows:
"So, in the Invisible, the dark barren branches of the Invisible, we know That must be present, for I AM, and in That is being experienced the Creativity of the Wonder becoming the greatest engineering feat of all time: man's ability to structure an edifice of thought-projected form that he calls himself, a human being."
Dr. Mills also stated the following on arts and today's society:
"In this day and age, how can you expect to receive anything from a society that has lost the wonder of artistic endeavor and classical attainment? What is necessary? The silencing of noise."
Dr. Mills first showed me the meaning of this Biblical quote, which he paraphrased as follows:
"I of myself can do nothing; 'tis the Wonder of the Invisible that doeth the work."
I'll be back in two weeks.
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