Law Practice as a Work of Art?

There is a lot going on here but I wanted to check in before heading off to Steve Keeva's house because I know that I will have lots to report when I get back.

Yesterday, Jill Dahlquist led us in a meditation process to name the group energy of the magazine. I was kind of surprised by the energy that came up but it is certainly a familiar one and I like what we created. For those familiar with creating containers with IAM energy, the name won't sound strange but the rest of you may have to get around that part. The energetic container we got is called "CreativeLaw-IAm". It gave me a different perspective on some of what we've been working on. We're not only creating a new paradigm of law but each of us is creating the way we fit into that paradigm and we're each having to access our creative energies to do it. Life as a work of art. Law practice as a work of art!

When we were finished with the process, I checked my email and got some synchronistic confirmation from Stephanie West Allen in this quote from Gerry Spence:

Most lawyers know little about classical literature and history, have never written a poem, have never painted a picture, have never stood before an audience and sung a song, have never been permitted to confess their pain or their love, and, in short, have been denied the stuff of personhood. One need not write poetry or paint pictures to be a successful human being. But some intimacy with the arts and the language and its use and with right brain functions of feeling and creativity are essential to the development of the whole person. Little wonder that lawyers, disabled by all of the stifling, mostly useless mental exercises they have suffered, have trouble relating to jurors much less to the rest of mankind.

Rest here:

http://gerryspence.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/defrauding-the-nation’s-lawyers/