Comments on: Falling off beams

By: Balance Comments « Kirsty Hall

Balance Comments « Kirsty Hall — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:22:22 +0000

[...] up lately and while doing so, I was struck by the insightful comments I got on last month’s Falling Off Beams post: it seems that I’m not alone in struggling to find a balance between life and art. [...]

By: lee

lee — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:05:33 +0000

thank you for a reminder that balance is not-falling, rather than any simple pose that can be maintained over time. I am flailing my workroom, trying to winnow and weed and return to the pristine space only things I really want to work on. An impossible task, of course, all the old projects and ideas are crowding about looking for a chance to be made (or finished) as well as new ideas…

By: dryadart

dryadart — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:23:04 +0000

good to know there are others struggling to make room in a “real” life for the art they must make… some days one feels so alone… balance, peace, space, wisdom, all such elusive and fleeting things, thanks for the post

By: Daniel Sroka

Daniel Sroka — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:31:41 +0000

I have a partially written post just like this one sitting in my blog’s Drafts folder. I believe that you may need the tension between what you have to do and what you want to do in order to move ahead with either. It is the energy created by the two, like a magnetic force, that pushes you forward.

By: annalisa

annalisa — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:16:38 +0000

Well said! I feel as though I have been buffeted by conflicting forces for awhile now too, and like you said balance can be hard to find but the struggle for it is what makes life lively…

By: iHanna

iHanna — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:47:13 +0000

Thanks for writing what I’m feeling too Kristy! All those unwritten blog posts, all those things one plan and never will get to!

calmness and chaos!

By: vivien blackburn

vivien blackburn — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:43:15 +0000

that description of childhood gym and the terror of that beam for an un-athletic child with no balance brought back memories for me!

me too

and yes, life is often like that