I wrestled with my conscience.
Should I post other people's words in my Blog?
Isn’t this meant to be The Space For The Original Franka?
Well, regarding this veneration of Originality: I’m so relieved finally to accept that there's actually nothing new under the sun.
We all breathe the same air (each other’s – eeeuuw!)
We are merely pollinated (or fertilised...) by others' experiences, ideas and expressions and we enjoy each other's work the way we admire co-vegetation in an exotic botanical garden. (Does that make critics the locusts and other leaf-eating creepy-crawlies?)
In this Blog-jungle, you’ll find my ‘own’ thoughts growing alongside, or intertwined with, those sprouting from other people's brains. I wish I could claim full ownership of them. But that would be as arrogant and silly as saying that I own the air we breathe.
We only own the effort we put into breathing in and breathing out creatively.
Some plants have pretty flowers, others have thorns, others eat meat…
Welcome.
Tread lightly.
Enjoy the scenery!
Should I post other people's words in my Blog?
Isn’t this meant to be The Space For The Original Franka?
Well, regarding this veneration of Originality: I’m so relieved finally to accept that there's actually nothing new under the sun.
We all breathe the same air (each other’s – eeeuuw!)
We are merely pollinated (or fertilised...) by others' experiences, ideas and expressions and we enjoy each other's work the way we admire co-vegetation in an exotic botanical garden. (Does that make critics the locusts and other leaf-eating creepy-crawlies?)
In this Blog-jungle, you’ll find my ‘own’ thoughts growing alongside, or intertwined with, those sprouting from other people's brains. I wish I could claim full ownership of them. But that would be as arrogant and silly as saying that I own the air we breathe.
We only own the effort we put into breathing in and breathing out creatively.
Some plants have pretty flowers, others have thorns, others eat meat…
Welcome.
Tread lightly.
Enjoy the scenery!
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