{"id":3026,"date":"2011-08-22T19:09:04","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T23:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/08\/your-gloria\/"},"modified":"2011-08-22T19:09:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T23:09:04","slug":"your-gloria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2011\/08\/your-gloria\/","title":{"rendered":"Your “Gloria”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I never seem to tire of examining what it is that contributes to creative endeavors and I came across this passage in the novel "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese in which the adult Matron is chastising the child Marion for being lazy:<\/p>\n

How easily Matron probed the gap between ambition and expediency.  "Why must I do what is hardest?"<\/em><\/p>\n

"Because, Marion, you are an instrument of God.  Don't leave the instrument sitting in it's case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored.  Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?"<\/em><\/p>\n

…"But, Matron, I can't dream of playing Bach, the 'Gloria'…," <\/em><\/p>\n

"No, Marion," she said…. " No, not Bach's 'Gloria.'  Yours!  Your 'Gloria' lives within you.  The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you."<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I never seem to tire of examining what it is that contributes to creative endeavors and I came across this passage in the novel "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese in which the adult Matron is chastising the child Marion for being lazy: How easily Matron probed the gap between ambition and expediency.  "Why must […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026","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=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}