Creation

Creation itself was the fall. A burst into the thorny beauty of the real. Annie Dillard

Thank you, Annie Dillard.

Creation can also feel like our own failure.

That’s unfortunate and usually unspoken.

Thorniness can be piercing, a reminder that we are still alive at all - creating instead of merely consuming.

Would we rather be in the waxy, overlit region of the unreal… at a mall?

Choose your fall wisely, for in thorny beauty is where we remember we are still on alive time, not dead time.