If you haven't already read the late David Foster Wallace's commencement address from 2005, I highly suggest checking it out. And it is certainly worth rereading. I'm so grateful to Swirly Girl for posting the link to it recently. What a great reminder. And what a loss.
"If you're automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won't consider possibilities that aren't annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.
"Not that that mystical stuff is necessarily true. The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're gonna try to see it."
Read the rest here.
[Side note: Anyone who knows me will know that the idea of this art project delights me!]
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