{"id":10317,"date":"2014-12-18T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T18:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=10317"},"modified":"2014-12-18T10:25:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T18:25:21","slug":"there-he-goes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2014\/12\/18\/there-he-goes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"There He Goes Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Playground-115\"<\/a><\/h6>\n
The team effort building the playground in Jericho.<\/em><\/h6>\n

Okay, I am a creative. That is, I make things that didn’t exist before, I do things that weren’t expected.<\/p>\n

I don’t do everything. In fact depend on others for a great many important things. The regular stuff I often need help with, the stuff we need, that I need. What I supply instead is that which may be perfect for the situation but nobody knew it was coming, wouldn’t have missed it if it hadn’t, but which adds to the quality of the moment or the space.<\/p>\n

Moreover, I’m seeing how every person has their own person-ness, contribution and style, and how\u00a0everything they do is microcosm of their wholeness. We could say of\u00a0every action, “There he goes again.”<\/span><\/p>\n

I see it now looking back at the time with the team building a playground in Jericho. I was somewhat useful, but not in the technical areas. When there was a mechanical problem to be handled, I deferred to others. I often moved around, switching “teams,” getting involved in things only briefly. But, as somebody noticed, I made a point of encouraging anyone who was doing anything. I pitched in with energy with certain non-technical things, like rolling the wheel barrow around and doing physical stuff that had to be done.<\/p>\n

But what I did do that no one saw coming was to write a humorous poem covering antics and reflections of how we worked together, and then I took initiative to wait for the right moment and stand up and dramatically read it to the group. Nobody could have seen that coming, but they loved it and it added to the quality of the whole event.<\/p>\n

It was the same thing with the paintings, which I took a day out to do (missing a day of touring) and then surprised everybody some days later with an “art show” in which they were presented, each one, with the paintings as gifts. Some said this made the trip for them, or at least filled any need to buy some special keepsake of the trip.<\/p>\n

Again, nobody saw it coming, if it hadn’t happened nobody would have missed it, but doing it added to the memorability and the quality of the whole.<\/p>\n

In truth, I didn’t see these coming either. It’s just the kind of thing I do. And knowing that, accepting it, helps with the personal freedom.<\/p>\n

That’s a little encouragement we all need\u00a0. . .\u00a0to know who we are, the uniqueness of our particular\u00a0contribution, and then do it.<\/p>\n

Do it for others.<\/p>\n

The world just gets better.<\/p>\n

____________________<\/p>\n

PS By coincidence of this post, I’ll be doing another of my speaking and painting events both this evening and this coming Sunday. It’ll be the Christmas story, expanded, both in word and on canvas. Tonight it’ll be at Capo Beach Church<\/a> at 6:30. On Sunday it’ll be a Granite Creek Church<\/a> in Claremont at 9:30 and 11:00. All are welcome at both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a little encouragement we all need . . . to know who we are, the uniqueness of our particular contribution, and then do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10317"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10337,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10317\/revisions\/10337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}