Thursday, March 3, 2011

Self Doubt




Preparing an itemized invoice for Canadian Customs for our upcoming book exhibit (10 ballpoint pens @ .20, 40 exam copy instruction sheets @ .01, 2 business card holders @ .75 . . .), I’m in desperate need of something less mind-numbing.  Even Mozart’s Piano Concerto #27 in B Flat doesn’t much alleviate the tedium and questions about what I'm doing with my life.

Feeling ever so mousily defiant, I take a few minutes from my task to look up those fine admonitory words from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Archaic Torso of Apollo

“for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.”


image:  The Hand of God, Rodin Museum, ematheson84

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