Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

 Dust grey streets wander, lurching over the hunched-up dreams. A stage of my own, with parts and strings and adoration! Me, It’s Me! Select Me!      It will be enough I swear it will! Around the corner from the bulb-lit marques Brick walls stand up, triple storied, stenciled with memories, Wiping away the dreams. Off they roll, scrabbling muddy bits and pieces in their wake.  Come with me into the other places Down inside the heart of the matter Betting with a different set of compositions Bone real and iced with yellow Watered with sacred shadows Threaded with translucent possibilities Dusty finger prints playing with pieces of divinity Soaked in the grace of letting be Our tunes braided in a single melody, Only the piper hears the differences.

  Well, Maybe not...

Startled Worn away in the winter Still hanging onto last year’s evidence while new growth pushes out   Is there another chance? well,  I do have my ways.

Ellsworth Kelly. (American, born 1923). Apples . Paris, 1949. Charcoal pencil on paper Idea! Go out and try some blind contour drawing. Just take a few minutes and draw something on your table or desk: here's how: take a piece of blank paper and a pencil (ok, a pen will do) put behind your back (or out of sight of your eyes). without taking the pencil off the paper, draw the object you choose. Don't be fussy! Just get the basic outline and add a few details--No picking up your pencil!  No looking! Benefit: You will discover the great quality of line that Ellsworth Kelly uses!!

Yes, it is impossible to quite capture the magic and majestic paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe, but what love in every stroke. And look at the composition, with the antlers just barely in reach of the frame. Awsome! Georgia O'Keeffe, American, 1887-1988 From the Faraway, Nearby, 1937 Oil on Canvas

Like a fly we are caught by the merest chance In the cunning webs of circumstance. There isn't time for a second look, To see the puzzled pictures in the riddle book, To sniff out the hand that baited the hook. What if there is a snagy thread Pulled loose by a windblown seed? Don’t wait for a message, just go ahead, Just pull, it’s a seed not a weed! Forget all the angles and “wait a secs “, Forget regressing your y over x! It isn’t mathematics that’s calling for you It’s life, it’s exciting, let's try something new! Just pull it! --  Help! I'm flying away!  Hang on, don't let go! It's just for today. v

What is more beautiful than an unemployed canon? Montjuic, Barcelona - Summer2012 Barcelona Commercial Harbor from MontJuic.  Summer 2012