Comments by "Kathy Bramley" (@kathybramley5609) on "" video.

  1. I hope you get some sleep and you're okay. And definitely things just existing and not having pressure on them is valuable whether they feel half baked or not. From a health point of view, a growth or progress or productivity based mindset can be dangerous in extreme and being balanced with permission to be good enough or even just exist means a lot. To a lot of people often. Sometimes creative pressure can be a kind of toxic positivity, somewhere between that and sort of pyramid selling salvation to yourself and then can at worst, which I don't think you're onto, become a saviour complex or a missionary zeal you might not actually like or that loses circumspection. Before you can be circumspect you need to know how to slow down and go small and still. To stop at being something modest. Circumspection is another kind of performance pressure otherwise, giddily expansive and scattershot. You're fine! I do however find it interesting that you conflated "a reason" with arbitrary and with systematic design. A reasoned reason. A kind of pull factor!? Whereas for me a reason is more about cause and effect, language as a collective artwork. And I don't mean that as a criticism. But more a mediation. It's part of stopping and smelling the roses - deriving a small and pleasant meditation from an alphabetical song your kid sings "wrong" - it doesn't have to be going anywhere or need to even be cognisant of whether it's a dead end as a thought and moment. That's almost a shame to think about it like that. No, life and language and our thought itself is an organically evolving tool with many threads and nubs and branches and extra stylistic twiddly bits and curiosities. Just like other tools and evolution itself. Life is pleasantly experimental and everyone tests what is an is not important from a very young age. Both accidentally, deliberately and as part of a cultural context. I don't know if this is cheesy or terrible and I'm not doing anyone justice, but I think it's said indigenous cultures often see less of a distinction between tools and art and other practices, the hard line and mechanistic boxes of western culture just like various features of various languages and cultures are optional more than absolute or optimal. We don't know there's any such thing. We generally employ nuance just as much as we employ essentialism and quick thinking, or the basis shifts. But I find it quite comforting this messy fluid diversely fractal picture that forms in my mind.
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