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A review by taratuulikki
The Blessing: A Memoir by Gregory Orr
4.0
Beautiful commentary on the saving grace of art. How it heals us from the grief and trauma and indifference of the world. How it helps us create or cultivate or interpret meaning out of life.
Some favorite excerpts:
“‘In my beginning was my end.’ But ‘end’ is also purpose, your essential intention in life—that aim toward which you direct your energies and talents. I didn’t die in Hayneville, and my beginning in trauma and violence led me on to a lifetime of creation rather than destruction.”
“I could choose instead the artist’s kind of death that is part of being reborn a hundredfold.”
“Here in this field, arrayed in long lines, was an army of art. This army was engaged in a war against the nothingness and indifference of the universe.”
Some favorite excerpts:
“‘In my beginning was my end.’ But ‘end’ is also purpose, your essential intention in life—that aim toward which you direct your energies and talents. I didn’t die in Hayneville, and my beginning in trauma and violence led me on to a lifetime of creation rather than destruction.”
“I could choose instead the artist’s kind of death that is part of being reborn a hundredfold.”
“Here in this field, arrayed in long lines, was an army of art. This army was engaged in a war against the nothingness and indifference of the universe.”