Alright, so I’ve been pretty busy lately and…well
that’s about it. Pretty busy. Some disappointing grades on papers,
recently–I really need to work on that. Also, I have a Jordan midterm
on Thursday. And a Somerville midterm *sometime in the future* (yet to
be determined actually). Plus the Somerville paper that is taking over
my life. Not a bad thing, it’s actually quite interesting. I came
across this quote the other day while doing some research:

    “At times, when this revelation of God through the works
of His hand is borne upon man with peculiar suddenness, freshness, and
fulness, he is beside himself with a unique pleasure. He has
anticipated a bit of the beatitude for which he was created–the
contemplation of the truth and the beauty of God. His faculties for a
fleeting moment rest in the possession of that for which they were
made. In these moments, man captures from the truth and beauty of
creatures a flash of the truth and beauty of the Word of God in whom
resides the fulness of truth and beauty. Conscious of the goodness of
even this refracted ray of God’s beauty which he has caught in the
prism of his own experience, man feels the unselfish instinct to
diffuse, to manifest, to share that beatifying experience with his
fellowmen. This is the impulse which prompts men to become creative
artists, the impules to create a new reality which will bring to others
what the beauty of a fragment of God’s creation has brought to them.”

And I decided that this is a greater portion of my reasons for being an
artist. So yeah, consider that my “Artist’s Statement” Oh yeah, the
actual paper is on the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins if you’re interested.