Many thanks to everyone who has been responding to my question: What immediately comes to mind when presented with the phrase “Inner Child”. The profundity of the subject matter in my work often becomes clear only in the moment when I finally start talking with others about it.
I have some great inspiration and ideas to flesh out the 20 minutes of rock solid skeleton I already had for the show. Your responses are both reminding me that there are so many different ways to experience the world and also helping me feel less alone in both my struggles and my vision.
Trending #InnerChild subjects: Puppetry, simplicity, captivity, loss, hindrance, food, deep wisdom, toys, curiosity, cannibalism (really!). Particular thanks to Neil Gaiman for RTing me on twitter, I received a vast response and awesome feedback from that.
I am sorta having a pretty intense emotional response from all the answers I’ve been getting in the last couple hours on twitter. Like kinda crying and overwhelmed and heavy. There was as much positive reaction (fond memories, forts, mud between toes) as negative (evil, lonely, helpless) to the question itself and some of the answers were very chilling or otherwise effected me deeply.
There had to be a puppet scene and now I have more ideas on how that might look, and some ideas on the lighter side of our inner little people which I don’t have as much experience with and needed help to envision.
But I think mostly, I’ve never experienced a wave of attention like that before, especially of subject matter that’s so near to the people sharing it. It was kinda big and right now my inner voice is reminding me to be careful what I wish for.
I like to live always at the beginnings of life, not at their end. We all lose some of our faith under the oppression of mad leaders, insane history, pathologic cruelties of daily life. I am by nature always beginning and believing and so I find your company more fruitful than that of, say, Edmund Wilson, who asserts his opinions, beliefs, and knowledge as the ultimate verity. Older people fall into rigid patterns. Curiosity, risk, exploration are forgotten by them. You have not yet discovered that you have a lot to give, and that the more you give the more riches you will find in yourself. It amazed me that you felt that each time you write a story you gave away one of your dreams and you felt the poorer for it. But then you have not thought that this dream is planted in others, others begin to live it too, it is shared, it is the beginning of friendship and love.
You must not fear, hold back, count or be a miser with your thoughts and feelings. It is also true that creation comes from an overflow, so you have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing. Permit yourself to flow and overflow, allow for the rise in temperature, all the expansions and intensifications. Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. If it seems to you that I move in a world of certitudes, you, par contre, must benefit from the great privilege of youth, which is that you move in a world of mysteries. But both must be ruled by faith. – The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
If interested in preliminary music concepts for #Minor the [working?] title of my #InnerChild show, I’ve publicized https://soundcloud.com/neevita/minor-theme-solo-piano – this, incidentally, was the last time I played the song – 11 days ago. Must have needed to let things settle a bit.
Here we go..
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