How Great We Art –

Silly title – but not so silly subject behind it.

Election years in the US always seem to bring out the worst in all of us. We are flippant and lack compassion, we are unforgiving and rude. And then there are the candidates! I don’t even want to start on that, so I won’t. This isn’t a post about politics but another reminder during this hyper-charged season that we are actually just amazing creatures!!

We need to remember that we are all much more then what we hear from media, or politicians, or  government. We are filled with possibilities and potential, and creativity and hope. There are people doing prodigious things out in the world every day. We don’t know it though because it isn’t as news worthy as killings and racism, or as head turning as another Kardashian getting a lip wax. I too start to feel our failings as humans after watching the shenanigans of current events.

But then I see something like this:

Wooden, Hand-Cranked Music Machine

Do yourself a favor and watch this. Really, I love you all so much that I am sharing this so that you can actually feel really good about being a human full of creativity and art. We need to remember how incredibly amazing we all are, how creative, beautifully intricate, and masterfully designed (by God or Nature, either way we are awesome) we are. We are so beautifully intricate that one of our fellow human elements was able to create this beautifully intricate machine. Think about the thought it took to just come up with the concept and then think about all the thoughts it took to bring it to fruition. I for one am THRILLED that I am of the same species as this guy. And his devotion to making this happen reminds me how great our humanness is and how important art and creativity is to that human spirit.

We hear so much negativity everyday and forget how much goodness is being created by us, being shared by us, being innovated, and invented by us, us humans. Yes, we are flawed and do LOTS of stupid, thoughtless, unkind things. But we are also kind of marvelous.

How great we art.