{"id":69,"date":"2008-09-05T19:47:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T02:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fcontrol.forethought.net\/~ahm\/cms\/?p=69"},"modified":"2014-09-19T20:41:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T03:41:21","slug":"gapbetween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wholebeingexplorations.com\/cms\/archives\/gapbetween\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Gap Between"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <strong>Ursula K. LeGuin<\/strong>  from <i>Always Coming Home (1985)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>What do they do,<br \/>\nthe singers, tale-writers, dancers, painters, shapers, makers?<br \/>\nThey go there with empty hands,<br \/>\ninto the gap between.<br \/>\nThey come back with things in their hands.<br \/>\nThey go silent and come back with words, with tunes.<br \/>\nThey go into confusion and come back with patterns.<br \/>\nThey go limping and weeping, ugly and frightened,<br \/>\nand come back with the wings of the redtail hawk,<br \/>\nthe eyes of the mountain lion.<\/p>\n<p>\nThat is where they live,<br \/>\nwhere they get their breath:<br \/>\nthere, in the gap between,<br \/>\nthe empty place.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhere do the mysterious artists live?<br \/>\nThere, in the gap between.<br \/>\nTheir hands are the hinge.<br \/>\nNo one else can breathe there.<br \/>\nThey are beyond praise.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinary artists<br \/>\nuse patience, passion, skill, work<br \/>\nand returning to work, judgment,<br \/>\nproportion, intellect, purpose,<br \/>\nindifference, obstinacy, delight in tools,<br \/>\ndelight, and with these as their way<br \/>\nthey approach the gap, the hub,<br \/>\napproaching in circles, in gyres,<br \/>\nlike the buzzard, looking down, watching,<br \/>\nlike the coyote, watching.<\/p>\n<p>They look to the center,<br \/>\nthey turn on the center,<br \/>\nthey describe the center,<br \/>\nthough they cannot live there.<br \/>\nThey deserve praise.<\/p>\n<p>There are people who call themselves artists<br \/>\nwho compete with each other for praise.<br \/>\nThey think the center<br \/> <br \/>\nis a stuffed gut,<br \/>\nand that shitting is working.<br \/>\nThey are what the buzzard and the coyote<br \/>\nate for breakfast yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ursula K. LeGuin from Always Coming Home (1985) What do they do, the singers, tale-writers, dancers, painters, shapers, makers? They go there with empty hands, into the gap between. They come back with things in their hands. They go &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wholebeingexplorations.com\/cms\/archives\/gapbetween\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,34],"tags":[85,30,43,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholebeingexplorations.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholebeingexplorations.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholebeingexplorations.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholebeingexplorations.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholebeingexplorations.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholebeingexplorations.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholebeingexplorations.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wholebeingexplorations.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholebeingexplorations.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wholebeingexplorations.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}