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| Lights In the Distance |
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A fragment of pure joy describes this link of a flash mob concert of
Peer Gynt. It brought happy thoughts of distant travels in "the old country" and tears to my eyes as I watched the happy faces of the listeners.
Navigating today's ever-changing unsavory political and economic climate
with a smile on our faces may be the best we can do for ourselves. Snippets of distant events flood the news as we go about our everyday lives and ease into daily routines.
This link of a Belgian flash mob in a
do re mi performance will make your day and guarantees you a big smile. If you get the political ad up front, listen or not.
I found this quote to be apropos to my own distant thoughts: Ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not
happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK?
People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that
came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for
distant and unknowable reasons.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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| Clear Skies in the Distance |
Painting from a distance, figuratively and literally, is my plan for the next month.
Pulling back from my perch on the beach while re-imagining many shore and mountain knife paintings as larger more developed works is a task I've looked forward to for a while.
Minimalist tendencies will remain in fleshing-out the memories of places nearby and distant from "some distant and unknowable source."
European classical music has given way to the awesome salsa and Latin beat often heard on Picnic Island on weekends as one group practices or another records performance CDs on the beach.
Mountains are now low clouds in the distance that become heavy summer rain clouds.
It's all in the distance, waiting to be painted, regardless of the source.
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