The artist Pablo Picasso embodied the Trickster spirit, and he seems to have understood the gift of error, the passing of palm wine between Eshu and Obatala that resulted in such a great variety of human forms. "Try to make a circle as best you can" he says. "And since nobody before you has made a perfect circle, you can be sure that your circle will be completely your own. Only then will you have a chance to be original...and from errors one gets to know the personality."
Last week we saw a little brown bear in the campground at Salmon Creek. That wasn't on our "itinerary," we were just lucky enough to arrive at the right moment. How dull the world would be if we all did everything exactly the same
way, created the same things, sang and said the same words. How dull
life would be if everything always happened exactly the way that we
planned it.
(I got the Picasso quote from Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes the World: Mischief, Myth, and Art).
