During the holidays, I find myself wanting for moments of quiet and peace. How about you? One of the benefits of being near a park is that I can always escape there. It is a place as Wendell Berry says, “where one’s inner voices become audible.” I learned long ago that whenever I speak, my…
Month: November 2019
Don’t Aim At Success
It was time to clean out the bookcase in my writing nook I was told, and after many stops and starts, I began moving the books, papers, and artifacts that badly needed dusting and arranging in some semblance of order. Underneath a very untidy stack of old art books were the journals of quotes I…
The Glory of Light
The glory of light cannot exist without the shadows. — Winston Churchill. I know a lot about shadows, but they were never as bad as I feared. In fact, I learned a lot more while I was living in the shadows than when I was living in the sunshine of the moment. In our life,…
Give Happiness A Meaning Once More
We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more. — Albert Camus. Have you ever watched a series of TV commercials where all the scenes and actors are happy with the implied message if you only bought the advertiser’s products you…
Find All The Good First
I feel towards persons as I do towards art, — constructively. Find all the good first. Judge by what has been done, — not by omissions or mistakes. And look well into oneself! A life can well be spent correcting and improving one’s own faults without bothering about others. — Edward Weston. Weston in a few…