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June 29, 2014 jamie bourgeois

Maud.

In print & pattern Tags print pattern, maud, floral
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While painting mud resist today, I listened to lectures about the Anthropocene (ty @textilechronicler) & speeches by climate activist @gretathunberg. I’ve recently been thinking about how I learn and how I change and how it’s most profoundly been through being exposed to patterns of information and repeated ideas over and over and over again, under changing circumstances. I think it’s where learning happens and where it really sticks. While writing the essay for this scarf, I reference a quote by Joan Halifax from an @onbeing interview summarizing the writings of Teilhard de Chardin, “The more aware we become, the more responsible we recognize we are for what is and what will be.” I think the reason that some people deny that humans are causing Climate Change or deny Climate Change as a whole, is because if they deny it, they don’t have to face the responsibility of changing their habits or challenge systems of power. So, they choose not to listen to any Science that will inconvenience them. People are choosing ignorance over responsibility. This week, my therapist talked with me about the importance of hope, having it, and allowing others to feel it when you have lost it. It’s easy to lose hope when you are repeatedly presented with so many reasons not to have it. And it’s easy to not have hope when you feel helpless. But, I know from experience from participating in the creative process, that the best thing to do when you feel stuck is anything. And in one of her speeches, Greta Thunberg says “Once we start to act, Hope is everywhere.” All of that ties together for me.

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