by Volker Brendel

It occurred to me that life is quite repetitive. This is most evident in the springtime. We all look forward to that time. Here in Bloomington it’s been really the last week and a half that life forms have just burst forth abundantly. And so it is with many experiences: they tend to re-occur. Obviously, the seasons are related to our annual calendar, movement of the earth around the sun, and that physical constant in our experience has allowed us to see many things in terms of creative cycles; the cycles of vegetation being the obvious example in the springtime. But, in general, as with any endeavor, there is a creative cycle that starts with an element of truth, an idea, a thought; and if there is merit to the creative cycle, it fills with spirit: the idea fills out, we get confidence that this idea has merit, and the cycle then progresses into form, out of the realm of the mental and the spiritual. We create something in form, and a successful cycle comes to fruition, a harvest.