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Jon Coffelt, highly acclaimed artist, activist and curator, is a former gallery owner living and working in Manhattan. Coffelt decided to keep his distinctive Southern drawl.

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Reluctantly Recalcitrant

June 11, 2010
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We say we want to try new things but we find reasons not to. We say we want to go to distant lands more yet we hold ourselves back. What is it about us that wants to hold onto the present longer than it actually exists or, at some point, even has meaning? Sometimes what we hold onto the longest is the weight that pulls us down. The very thing that becomes our biggest obstacle, our biggest fear. Have you ever stopped to think what it would be like to make a 180 degree turn?

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  1. joncoffelt

    And wasn’t it Einstein who said, “repeating the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the very definition of insanity?”

  2. awaken2sun

    So true. And while I’ve taken a number of 90 degree turns, not sure about the 180s. And you Jon…thinking about a 180?

  3. joncoffelt

    I think I’ve made 3 already this year Lisa. Almost a whirling dervish

  4. abcjanetg

    Change is hard but we’re all into it now. I’m not so sure about 180 though. For me, its more like 45. I basically like what i do, I just need to find ways to do it dirrerently and perhaps define/articulate it differently and more broadly.

  5. wonderwall

    I am heading in the 180 direction… expand, create explore, the only boundaries are the limits we place on ourselves.

  6. dangerousideas

    Chasing your tail? Back to the future? Round and Around? Get back to where you once belonged? Get right back to where we started from? An ever rollin’ wheel…Without a destination real…An ever spinning top…Whirling around till you drop?… Maybe “the destination” is “the journey”? And vice-versa. Maybe not.

  7. joncoffelt

    The highest good has an empty heart as its basis, and non-attachment as its source; abolishment of formality is the cause, and nirvana is the result.

    Mahasattva Fu (497-569)

  8. olidax

    Jon,
    I’ve taken your words to heart. So much so that I’ve blasted out of my comfort zone…by painting. As on of the little rascals said, ” I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way”. When adventure takes over, fear takes a back seat.

    By the way….Mahasattvu Fu’s phone # is wrong


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