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Today we're here with the horse Chip and I'd like to talk to you about time.
It's amazing how much has happened in the last
hundred years.
In 1905 there really,
the main source of transportation
for families was a horse. There were no automobiles, there were no planes.
Certainly no TV's.
Fast forward to even
ten years ago - facebook didn't exist, apps didn't exist,
Twitter or Skype, none of those things existed.
So all of these things have in many ways filled up our time.
We sort of live in an age of distraction. Somehow we think being busy is this great virtue.
I think something is lost when we get too busy.
I struggle, when I get really busy I don't like who I become.
It seems like I don't have time for people that are dearer to my life, like
my friends and family. Frankly, just
time to think or be creative. That aphorism -
"beware of the emptiness of a busy life"
seems to ring true
for all of us. There's a wonderful phrase that I read by Norman Maclean
it simply says
"In the world of slow time truth and art become one."
I think that there's something to be said for that because when there is slow time
I think our mind tends to travel to places it wouldn't otherwise go.
I think we become actually
maybe more empathetic to other people and
I certainly know as an artist
It's often in those slow times of reflection
that things come to my mind that seem to be
epiphanies or somehow enriching to the creative process.
So with that said, thank you for your time.
How was Chip?
Chip's been amazing. She has been good.
OK, I think, can we do it again, Cody?