Come, my tan-faced children, inspire

Well, well, well. Here we are again. Its been a few weeks, er, months since my last post and I have moved into a new year and a new semester.

Life seems to be moving in definite directions and the only thing that I am able to do is to hold on. The only thing that I am able to do is to trudge through and search for the light on the other side. In the meantime, I watch videos like this encourage me:

Now, I know what you’re thinking. What does this handsome WJU Senior have to do with Kittens. The simply answer is this: there are times when the simplest moments become the most important and beautiful. Even a child is able to create and imagine–and they do it at incredible paces. I like to watch this video because it reminds me of how easy it is to forget about creating. Often times when I get busy, I place myself into a groove and live move through habit. It hurts and hinders how life should be lived. But this video offers a glimpse of how life may be lived–that is, with timber and daring.

This reminds me of a Walt Whitman poem, Pioneers! O Pioneers! The poem was written during the American expansion of the West. Despite controversies behind the American expansion, Whitman’s remains. He writes,

COME my tan-faced children,
Follow well in order, get your weapons ready,
Have you your pistols? have you your sharp-edged axes?
Pioneers! O pioneers!

For we cannot tarry here,
We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Imagination and creative “cannot tarry here,” Whitman charges his audience. We must push forward, it must expand more, create more, imagine more. If we place ourselves in temptation’s groove we are unable to life. Perhaps, in this next semester, I must remember to create and imagine. After all, “all the rest on us depend…”

Daniel

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