I was listening to a talk by Clarissa Pinkola Estes and within the conversation she quoted a scene from an old film called The Red Shoes- a film about a ballerina.
In it, a man asks the ballerina, ‘Why do you dance?’
And she replies, ‘Why do you want to stay alive?’
He replies, ‘Well, I’m not exactly sure, I just know that I must!”
to which she says, “That is my answer also”.
There are many reasons why I ride and write, my two favourite loves, but the most pressing is simply, I just know that I must.
This, I believe, is the urgency of the creative spirit, a spirit we are lucky to all have, no matter whether we currently find it to be an ember or a fire.
For whatever reason, we just know that we must.
Onwards,
❤️ Jane
