Muse (myõõz) n. 1. Greek Myth.
Any of the nine daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus, each of whom presided
over a different art or science. 2. muse. a. A guiding
spirit. b. A source of inspiration. 3. muse. A poet.
conversations with a friend. on what i want to do with my life. what i want
to be. and i explain to her. art is just a part of me. as is writing. it
has its time place. but it is not what i would do. i will be a muse. and
i explain. to inspire. all those ideas. around in my head. and i want to
see them. finished. in form. give them to people. to create them. why not
yourself. are you lazy. not that. so many ideas. and i dont have the skills.
the time. the patience. and i want to see what they will add. so i will
travel. and give people ideas. and inspire them. through what i do. and say.
and write. and they shall create. make and shape it into form. my mind is
too free to be tied down to an art. a form. it needs to wander. to rush. to
ponder. to muse.
So this is about musing. What a muse is. What one does.
The becoming in-of-through inspiration.
I've been struggling with this whole concept for a long time now. In my mind
it is constantly changing. And the things I do in becoming evolve as my ideas
do. Musing to me now involves many aspects. What you see here on this site.
Ideas given to people to use, to inspire. As well as completed designs, for
others to enjoy, that will hopefully bring something into their life.
Lately though, I've undertaken another kind of musing. One that a long time ago
I did as a joke to myself, but which has now become some form of seriousness.
Walking up to a person and I hand them a piece of paper that has a quote, saying,
paragraph, picture on it. Then I walk away.
And hopefully that little piece of paper inspires them, makes them smile, do something
they might not have done had I not walked up to them. And now I've been going beyond
simply paper. Bags of herbs with descriptions of the herb. Books that I think people
should read (or certain people I think might enjoy reading). Cassette tapes with
music they might not have heard. And I'm still searching for more.
But the idea here is inspiration. Anonymous inspiration because it makes it all that
much more magickal when someone you don't know gives you something. Also in some way for
myself. Because as a general rule, I'm introverted. It takes a lot of willpower (and
sometimes drugs) for me to be able to walk up to someone and hand them something. By
walking away again, I don't have to deal with rejection. Or for that matter, acceptance,
which I am equal afraid of because I don't want ego boosts from this. And right now I don't
want people's reactions affecting who and what I give people. I want it spontaneous,
in the moment, pure. (I sometime also think this is a stupid idea, and can see myself in the
future changing all this, but this is part of becoming, exploring and discovering).
So right now musing is all these things. And being a muse means becoming a muse in ways
I can never imagine. My concept constantly changes, and as it does, I will change this too.
But for now, in case you were wondering, the concept of a muse.