{"id":2713,"date":"2020-05-24T10:16:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T14:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2020\/05\/beautiful-responsibility\/"},"modified":"2020-05-24T10:16:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T14:16:44","slug":"beautiful-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2020\/05\/beautiful-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There may be as many reasons explaining what motivates a person to express themselves creatively as there are artists, but one of those reasons has to be the desire to, as Julia Margaret Cameron once recorded: &quot;&#8230;arrest all beauty that came before me.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Recently came across some excerpts from the writings of Viktor Frankl that perhaps explains that desire more fully:<\/p>\n<p><em> &#8230;it is not only the uniqueness of an individual life as a whole that gives it importance, it is also the uniqueness of every day, every hour, every moment that represents something that loads our existence with the weight of a terrible and yet so beautiful responsibility! &#8230; [W]hat we achieve by seizing the moment is, once and for all, rescued into reality&#8230;&#0160; In truth, it has actually been preserved, in the sense of being kept safe&#8230;.the reality that we have rescued into the past in this way, can no longer be harmed by transitoriness.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2020\/05\/17\/yes-to-life-in-spite-of-everything-viktor-frankl\/?mc_cid=f34f628426&amp;mc_eid=d0436d7036\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0264e2dd383d200d-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"M-0258\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b0264e2dd383d200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b0264e2dd383d200d-500wi.jpg\" title=\"M-0258\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be as many reasons explaining what motivates a person to express themselves creatively as there are artists, but one of those reasons has to be the desire to, as Julia Margaret Cameron once recorded: &quot;&#8230;arrest all beauty that came before me.&quot; Recently came across some excerpts from the writings of Viktor Frankl that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}