I do believe that some things are more important than others.

Disagreement is always welcome.

In the post I distinguished between trivial and more significant change. Leaving an abusive relationship is certainly one of the significant ones. I’m not sure how this misunderstanding arose.

I don’t think I’m a brain in anything actually.

Please feel free to comment further. I think creativity can help us live fulfilling lives and this can include making major changes – though sometimes these are just a matter of taking our courage in our hands and aren’t necessarily terribly creative (though no less important because of this).

This post also came at a good time for me as I’ve just published my first fiction story on my site. It was scary to do this and I wasn’t sure how it would be received. I believe, however, it is a part of me that needs to come out and play.

Thank you for this excellent post:~)

The sixties was a crazy time, especially for a white boy from Africa from a conceited prejudiced society, then to be thrown into a “mix” where colonials wanted to be French and “chic”.

I don’t remember P.C. much to my loss, I was sent immediatly after to Amsterdam(my parents concerned for my safety in Paris) where the situation was equally surreal.

1968 was the time of much debate and stone throwing, would be philosophers,the provo movement etc.,……I don’t rememeber much if who I met apart from some Scandanavian girls whose father bought them a house boat but that’s a story for another time.

best,

lee du ploy

How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb? one one “the world revolves around them”

Whether anyone likes our creativity is another question.

I love the elephant story. (I can’t resist asking, did you meet Paul Ricoeur when you were at the Sorbonne?) Thanks for your comment.

Its said that an elephant out of control is an awesome sight,with its power it can cause havoc but under control its passive and in most cases gentle, it just wants to move a few logs, eat,take a rest have a shower.

Creativity is possible in all of us ,however the assumption that others will like what you write or what you paint is the quandarry.

The question then arises who is a great writer of painter?

I will go for broke ( personally) and tell you mine( shoot me later after you’ve kicked the cat) Kazo Ishiguro and V.S. Naipaul, easy writing a style unique and not too intelectual.

As for painters I love above all Tamara de Lempicka and Gerhard Richter,two opposites but both bite you on the artze,leaving you with no choice but emotional respose.

I am also slightly obsessed by the “Prinshorn” collection the first known Art as Therapy used for confined patients.

Now that I have opened my self widely to your comments and critissms ,its only left for me to explain the cat and the elepant story.

I was at the Sorbonne in the late 60′s one of the lecturers used bad English to describe situations,always hopefully glancing for appreciation is the direction of the English girls……….one of his very favourite was this question “Are you still kicking the cat to keep the elephant happy?” which after 30 years I have concluded means are you still trying to explain the meaning of life through art.

lee du ploy( hong kong)