Laila Ibrahim Author of Living Right and ​Yellow Crocus
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Imperfect or none?  That’s the only choice

9/23/2015

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I often say you can have imperfect community or no community, but perfect community is not at option.  I’ve been going to the same church for more than 30 years so I’ve had ample opportunity to practice being a part of imperfect community.  Sometimes it is no fun at all.  But other times, something happens at church that makes my heart soar, causing all the frustrations and disappointments to be worth it.


As I embark on a career as an artist it strikes me that the same principle is at work in  art.  You can make imperfect art or no art, but perfect art isn’t an option.  As soon as I had that realization, I understood that it’s true for all human endeavors:  you an be an imperfect parent or no parent, but perfect parenting isn’t an option.  Nor is perfect cooking, cleaning, teaching, building, loving, meditating...the list goes on and on.


I find this notion very freeing.  Perfection is not an option so I don’t concern myself with it.  I don’t have to do things ‘right’. I just have to do things and then see what parts of it come out right. I act, I notice, I reflect, and I revise.  Not a bad system for making art...or a life.
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    Laila Ibrahim is a passionate author set out to write stories of love's ability to transcend human-made systems of oppression.

     Living Right goes beyond the headlines to reveal the life and death stakes when a devoted mother struggles to reconcile her evangelical Christian beliefs with her son’s sexual orientation.

    Set in the antebellum South, Yellow Crocus is a rich, evocative tale of love, loss and redemption between an enslaved black woman, her privileged white charge, and their fight for freedom.

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