Creative potential is everywhere, by Jon Foreman
Meditative Story
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Jon Foreman is a land artist who uses the raw materials of the environment to create breathtaking ephemeral pieces. His ability to see creative potential all around him is his superpower, but when his life presents him with the unexpected, he has to become more narrowly focused on his responsibilities. In today’s episode, Jon tells the story of how he eventually found his way back to his creativity, and gives himself grace for the times when his life is otherwise full.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there it's Rohan with a very special invitation. |
| 0:04.0 | As we enter 2024, we're thinking a lot about the future of meditative story, |
| 0:10.0 | and your perspective is one of the most important factors in guiding that future. And your |
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| 0:36.7 | forward slash survey if you'd like to contribute your time and feedback mean a lot to the team here and to me personally. |
| 0:45.0 | Again, that website is Meditative Story.com |
| 0:50.0 | forward slash survey. Thank you. |
| 0:53.0 | And now, on to today's episode. I grab bits of string, paper, cardboard. I have no idea what I'm going to do with them, but I start arranging them and rearranging them. |
| 1:17.0 | I start taping string to a tin can over and over, one piece of string at a time. The process becomes repetitive, but it's |
| 1:26.2 | soothing and fun. |
| 1:31.0 | As I connect the objects to other objects, I make something totally new, |
| 1:35.0 | something that's never existed before. |
| 1:39.0 | With this process, it's like a part of my brain is reawakening. Professional land artist John Foreman creates incredible works of art out of sand, leaves and other natural materials in the environment. |
| 2:02.0 | But his impressive ability to see |
| 2:05.4 | creative potential all around him is tested when as a teenager he has to become |
| 2:12.1 | more narrowly focused on his responsibilities. |
| 2:16.2 | In today's episode, John shares the story of learning that the world's creative potential |
| 2:22.0 | is always all around us, |
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