If you see my blog pic, it is me with Bear, our Pomeranian. I brought Bear into the world when he was born...16 years ago...he looked like a little bear then....and he does now....16 years....still a little bear..
Each year, we are closer. Bear has lost his hearing. He still kisses me like he always did. Now I am his friend....he knows his age....he is getting close to the rim....when he goes, I will be a total basket case.
Doggies are truly loving....they are like children. Yet they cannot laugh like we humans can...and they cannot produce art.
Producing art from within is the human gift...the destiny....I do not know any animal story where the animal produces something creative from their soul and they enjoy doing so....so much that they are like 'reborn'...
Thus, as we hold our loved pets....they are like children....they depend so much on us...without us to protect them, they are nothing.....they would be lost....
We shower our love on them like children...yet they cannot make the step that is made by a true child....who lives for art....the Creator's gift to express some kind of form and beauty in the world.
These creatrtures just want our love and to love us....and we do and they do....
Bear is something special in my life....will always be....his love is real...my love is real....his art is rather simple....it is just his love!
Friday, October 29, 2010
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Raison d' Amour Parte Deu
Landed in Copenhagen...just a quick straight miraculous shot across the Atlantic from Chicago...here at my keyboard some 18 hours later.....no big deal...that is our global world...Southern California to Skandanavia in 18 hours....continue wtiting....continue where you left off....it is just a minor global adjustment. After all, our primary mission is to put something back on this planet.....a company, an institution, a school, an art institute, a family, a company, a child, a tree...
So where does this love come from? Why does it hit?
Here is where I am in my life and what I have learned from my interviews with those of all ages...everywhere....
Faces.....that is what we look at first....sometimes love at first sight.....body.....same.....but that is just the first layer of attraction....some people like me tune in fast to who the person is, below their facial beauty.....what they stand for.....do they appreciate small things....are they spoiled about the materialism of the commercial, fashion, travel world....
Thus, I look fast, and can find fast deeper values....
Then, if the other person really does notice you....does hook into your words, your poetry....and if they take it deep into them and their life, then share with you....something has happened that is maybe magical....a back and forth starts...deep or not...it starts....and you know it....
It means going deep. Sharing, being vulnerable, and reciprocating that vulnerability....if there is still a rapport at that level, look out.....we are talking heart and soul.....
But why? Where does this come from?
Young people also want soul....want deep...
We do not really as humans have any way of finding such dear people to us.....no matter how hard we try....some say, if you want to meet your future husband or wife go to church meetings. It remains the number one place people who marry meet--church.
The whole rest meet by accident.
Art stores, bars, restaurants, schools....
Accident.
Could we agree that there may be no accidents for some of these meetings?
I personally believe that when people are spiritually ready, the forces of the universe puts them together as "accidents"...they have to do worldly footwork to make things happen ...maybe marriage....maybe babies...
So, why, the raison d'amour......it is a deep biological drive within each of us to mate and see our face with that of our dear loved one in a child....to nurture that child all the way....our biologies and hormones cannot be denied.....yet alone our dream of having a child, family....Where does this come from....the person....at the time.....who they are....that is the big 'accident' that the universe has given each of us....that moment we free-fall....
Perfect age, perfect family, perfect demographics and cultures....sometimes....BUT, sometimes not and the love is even stronger......
We talk about heroes. We talk about entrepreneurs.....
Through all of this, there are deeply human stories triumphant that contain pain, culture difference, age difference, other barriers, yet a child is born. Love is at the highest. That child receives kisses as much as any child. That child is a champion, a treasure. Two parents are so much in love, they know the deepest secret....they acted on their love....they have a beautiful child to raise into the world as a product of their love...
That is partly where it comes from. The whole rest is the Creator. No matter what a husband and wife want.....it is the Creator who brings them this destiny....
Our heart is not just this very rational thing, logocal, strategic. Real life brings love and more when we maybe least expect or plan it....is it s a gift?
If we see it as a gift, a wakeup surprise.....we live....
Our future husband or wife may be an angel....as we think of angels.....
They may be strangers.....coming into your life quite legitimately but in surprise dimensions...
They will be rarely people you have stayed with for long periods, like old girlfriends, old boyfriends...
I have seen too many cases where someone was just wakened up by someone new....
"New"....meaning older, younger, not in the normal category of lover expectation....
Pinkflash is real....it does happen very fast sometimes...it is based on brain chemistry....
My argument is that it may be based on destiny....and more than brain....it may be about deep values...
Things we see beyond the eyes....things we see deeper in the person, then we fall.....free fall...
It comes from what our Creator has given each of us as basic equipment. Our job is to make sure that we are tuned and in fitness. How we have been taught to love....comes from our own mother when we were infants....and everything we have observed about love ever since those days....no book, teacher, picture, film, can change that.....we are destined to love.....because that is what we first knew.....and we are destined to find what our spirit and our bodies hunger for.....it will be seen later as "no accident"....everything will make perfect sense....across cultures, ages, times....deep love will find you and me....and always has....
....a force we cannot fight....shape or deny.....
It may be part of what we all have to do.....put something back on the planet....like a child......
We are not meant to die alone....with no one to take care of us......the whole human drama gives us all lots of room to make sure we will have our destiny as we want it. But, we are meant to have love with us and around us....parents, loves, children....that is just what human history and destiny is all about....
Our challenge is to know when the players of our sacred family act just show up....and to love until we are fulfilled and fulfill the life of that one we so deeply love...
Love was the first thing we all knew when we were all so helpless in our mother's arms. It was her first kiss we all felt on our forehead. She taught us all the first lesson of life....love. That is where it comes from....and from the original love of our mother and father who loved enough to create us. How could it be otherwise....that is what we first knew. That is the origin of our love for all others....the light of life is passed on....
So when you love someone....it all traces back....we are all amazing miracles, not cosmic accidents. Our job now in our lives is to create that first kiss...to love someone so deeply....to share our spirit of love and life....and to pass the torch of life....our life and our love is in our hands...hearts....souls....
So where does this love come from? Why does it hit?
Here is where I am in my life and what I have learned from my interviews with those of all ages...everywhere....
Faces.....that is what we look at first....sometimes love at first sight.....body.....same.....but that is just the first layer of attraction....some people like me tune in fast to who the person is, below their facial beauty.....what they stand for.....do they appreciate small things....are they spoiled about the materialism of the commercial, fashion, travel world....
Thus, I look fast, and can find fast deeper values....
Then, if the other person really does notice you....does hook into your words, your poetry....and if they take it deep into them and their life, then share with you....something has happened that is maybe magical....a back and forth starts...deep or not...it starts....and you know it....
It means going deep. Sharing, being vulnerable, and reciprocating that vulnerability....if there is still a rapport at that level, look out.....we are talking heart and soul.....
But why? Where does this come from?
Young people also want soul....want deep...
We do not really as humans have any way of finding such dear people to us.....no matter how hard we try....some say, if you want to meet your future husband or wife go to church meetings. It remains the number one place people who marry meet--church.
The whole rest meet by accident.
Art stores, bars, restaurants, schools....
Accident.
Could we agree that there may be no accidents for some of these meetings?
I personally believe that when people are spiritually ready, the forces of the universe puts them together as "accidents"...they have to do worldly footwork to make things happen ...maybe marriage....maybe babies...
So, why, the raison d'amour......it is a deep biological drive within each of us to mate and see our face with that of our dear loved one in a child....to nurture that child all the way....our biologies and hormones cannot be denied.....yet alone our dream of having a child, family....Where does this come from....the person....at the time.....who they are....that is the big 'accident' that the universe has given each of us....that moment we free-fall....
Perfect age, perfect family, perfect demographics and cultures....sometimes....BUT, sometimes not and the love is even stronger......
We talk about heroes. We talk about entrepreneurs.....
Through all of this, there are deeply human stories triumphant that contain pain, culture difference, age difference, other barriers, yet a child is born. Love is at the highest. That child receives kisses as much as any child. That child is a champion, a treasure. Two parents are so much in love, they know the deepest secret....they acted on their love....they have a beautiful child to raise into the world as a product of their love...
That is partly where it comes from. The whole rest is the Creator. No matter what a husband and wife want.....it is the Creator who brings them this destiny....
Our heart is not just this very rational thing, logocal, strategic. Real life brings love and more when we maybe least expect or plan it....is it s a gift?
If we see it as a gift, a wakeup surprise.....we live....
Our future husband or wife may be an angel....as we think of angels.....
They may be strangers.....coming into your life quite legitimately but in surprise dimensions...
They will be rarely people you have stayed with for long periods, like old girlfriends, old boyfriends...
I have seen too many cases where someone was just wakened up by someone new....
"New"....meaning older, younger, not in the normal category of lover expectation....
Pinkflash is real....it does happen very fast sometimes...it is based on brain chemistry....
My argument is that it may be based on destiny....and more than brain....it may be about deep values...
Things we see beyond the eyes....things we see deeper in the person, then we fall.....free fall...
It comes from what our Creator has given each of us as basic equipment. Our job is to make sure that we are tuned and in fitness. How we have been taught to love....comes from our own mother when we were infants....and everything we have observed about love ever since those days....no book, teacher, picture, film, can change that.....we are destined to love.....because that is what we first knew.....and we are destined to find what our spirit and our bodies hunger for.....it will be seen later as "no accident"....everything will make perfect sense....across cultures, ages, times....deep love will find you and me....and always has....
....a force we cannot fight....shape or deny.....
It may be part of what we all have to do.....put something back on the planet....like a child......
We are not meant to die alone....with no one to take care of us......the whole human drama gives us all lots of room to make sure we will have our destiny as we want it. But, we are meant to have love with us and around us....parents, loves, children....that is just what human history and destiny is all about....
Our challenge is to know when the players of our sacred family act just show up....and to love until we are fulfilled and fulfill the life of that one we so deeply love...
Love was the first thing we all knew when we were all so helpless in our mother's arms. It was her first kiss we all felt on our forehead. She taught us all the first lesson of life....love. That is where it comes from....and from the original love of our mother and father who loved enough to create us. How could it be otherwise....that is what we first knew. That is the origin of our love for all others....the light of life is passed on....
So when you love someone....it all traces back....we are all amazing miracles, not cosmic accidents. Our job now in our lives is to create that first kiss...to love someone so deeply....to share our spirit of love and life....and to pass the torch of life....our life and our love is in our hands...hearts....souls....
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Raison d' Amour
Our Raison d' Amour, reason for loving, is just as important as our reason for being....
A medical physician friend recently showed me data that "falling in love" is part chemical, and can happen as fast as .2 seconds....the release of endorphins, Adrenalin, oxytocins, etc.....
I have talked about this in my recent book, The Four Great Flashes of Life. It is the Pinkflash. It can happen so fast that we can sometimes barely keep up with it....I call it a "whoosh"...a free-fall feeling. We may feel out of control. We may be out of control. Our thoughts are about that person...time and space are not the same...others notice a difference in us....usually very positive. Our life seems to completely change for the better. We have someone to live for...we all share this, whether .2 seconds, 2 minutes, 2 hours, 2 days, or 2 years....
But the reason...why? What does this represent in our life? Why does it come out of nowhere?
I leave now to fly across the Atlantic to Europe....from there, in a day or so, I will return to this favorite vital subject....to answer, as I know it, why this all happens....
Stay tuned....when it hits, it is like a ton of bricks or a ton of roses...one of our greatest gifts and can help us put something back on this planet. It comes from special places and for one very good reason....
A medical physician friend recently showed me data that "falling in love" is part chemical, and can happen as fast as .2 seconds....the release of endorphins, Adrenalin, oxytocins, etc.....
I have talked about this in my recent book, The Four Great Flashes of Life. It is the Pinkflash. It can happen so fast that we can sometimes barely keep up with it....I call it a "whoosh"...a free-fall feeling. We may feel out of control. We may be out of control. Our thoughts are about that person...time and space are not the same...others notice a difference in us....usually very positive. Our life seems to completely change for the better. We have someone to live for...we all share this, whether .2 seconds, 2 minutes, 2 hours, 2 days, or 2 years....
But the reason...why? What does this represent in our life? Why does it come out of nowhere?
I leave now to fly across the Atlantic to Europe....from there, in a day or so, I will return to this favorite vital subject....to answer, as I know it, why this all happens....
Stay tuned....when it hits, it is like a ton of bricks or a ton of roses...one of our greatest gifts and can help us put something back on this planet. It comes from special places and for one very good reason....
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Raison d'Etre....
Let me try to bring a few things together from recent essays here....
Our reason for being, Raison d'Etre, from all I know, is to put something back on the planet....a company, an institution, a school, a project, a family, a child, a tree, a work of art...and more. And we are here to help each other. When we are sincere at these things in our life, I believe greater forces move in the universe to help us.
It is also about acting boldly in the very face of fear and in the midst of chaos....
And, it is about going out there sometimes, in fact, often, boldly within, but modestly from the outside...
It is about all of us finding within the deep passion of creativity and shaping that into form and putting it out into media so others can enjoy and the world can move forward with art. The art within must come out, we can help each other...it is the expression of a divine gift. It takes many forms, from the pure arts to business and commercial venues where art is shared with the world. Schools are a great vehicle for that expression and transmittal. Business schools must search for their unique way to express and be part of the greater world of expression. Art schools, music and performing arts schools and media schools have found their platforms and enrich the world. Business schools must now search and craft their unique platform. Our CIBU is doing that now and is at the leading edge. Through the CIBU Arts Initiative 2010-2011: The Art Within Us Project, CIBU is forging this exciting venue. An entire, exciting world will unfold.
Thus, it is an institutional and an individual imperative. It is our destiny and legacy all in one.
Amelia Earhart showed us that actions speak louder than words....and that some "art" is just bravery in being a pioneer, in her case, it was her life that she sacrificed to make her artist's statement. She is one of my greatest heroes and innovators....I really do not know what happened to her, and I cannot pretend to know, but I wrote that I feel her spirit alive out there, somewhere in the wide expanses of the Pacific....if only her spirit lives forever, that is a gift.
Thought I should try to pull a few things together before taking off again for Europe and soon Asia. We are not a cosmic accident, though our time here is but a cosmic moment. Our living and loving is our gift to ourselves, each other, and to our time...every moment counts...huge surprises await....
Soon, again, the sunrise East on the California mountains and the smell of fresh coffee....
Our reason for being, Raison d'Etre, from all I know, is to put something back on the planet....a company, an institution, a school, a project, a family, a child, a tree, a work of art...and more. And we are here to help each other. When we are sincere at these things in our life, I believe greater forces move in the universe to help us.
It is also about acting boldly in the very face of fear and in the midst of chaos....
And, it is about going out there sometimes, in fact, often, boldly within, but modestly from the outside...
It is about all of us finding within the deep passion of creativity and shaping that into form and putting it out into media so others can enjoy and the world can move forward with art. The art within must come out, we can help each other...it is the expression of a divine gift. It takes many forms, from the pure arts to business and commercial venues where art is shared with the world. Schools are a great vehicle for that expression and transmittal. Business schools must search for their unique way to express and be part of the greater world of expression. Art schools, music and performing arts schools and media schools have found their platforms and enrich the world. Business schools must now search and craft their unique platform. Our CIBU is doing that now and is at the leading edge. Through the CIBU Arts Initiative 2010-2011: The Art Within Us Project, CIBU is forging this exciting venue. An entire, exciting world will unfold.
Thus, it is an institutional and an individual imperative. It is our destiny and legacy all in one.
Amelia Earhart showed us that actions speak louder than words....and that some "art" is just bravery in being a pioneer, in her case, it was her life that she sacrificed to make her artist's statement. She is one of my greatest heroes and innovators....I really do not know what happened to her, and I cannot pretend to know, but I wrote that I feel her spirit alive out there, somewhere in the wide expanses of the Pacific....if only her spirit lives forever, that is a gift.
Thought I should try to pull a few things together before taking off again for Europe and soon Asia. We are not a cosmic accident, though our time here is but a cosmic moment. Our living and loving is our gift to ourselves, each other, and to our time...every moment counts...huge surprises await....
Soon, again, the sunrise East on the California mountains and the smell of fresh coffee....
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Sprint Laps and Breathless...
I did some sprint laps today in the pool at the fitness center. I happen to think this is a great way to finish a workout in the pool. It really blows out all the systems.
But it is the mental part that is almost the best part. Everything goes into focus on stroke, speed, breathing, and all out push. When I do normal laps for cardio and endurance, I get to think about all kinds of cool stuff....but the sprint, there is the clock...there is the focus....there is the dash...
I'm a fan of Olympic swimmers, and a special one is Natalie Coughlin, a member of the womens' US team. I just like the way she is handling herself as a total athlete and professional, and a spokesperson and a role model. But,wow, what times she and her teammates are putting up. They do the 100 meters in less than a minute. That is without fins! When I do my all out, with fins, I would be well behind! I am so amazed at how the best of the best just sail through water. Their sprint is a fast, fast human dash through water. Their goal is to be the fastest in human history through water. Mine is to watch them in wonder and just give my best to beat my own time...
But when the sprint is over and you are catching big gulps of air and can savor the time....it is one of the greatest moments. Watching Natalie and teammates is a thrill....doing it for myself is a truly breathless thrill!
Endurance laps are great. The sprint is the best more than minute I spend in water!!
But it is the mental part that is almost the best part. Everything goes into focus on stroke, speed, breathing, and all out push. When I do normal laps for cardio and endurance, I get to think about all kinds of cool stuff....but the sprint, there is the clock...there is the focus....there is the dash...
I'm a fan of Olympic swimmers, and a special one is Natalie Coughlin, a member of the womens' US team. I just like the way she is handling herself as a total athlete and professional, and a spokesperson and a role model. But,wow, what times she and her teammates are putting up. They do the 100 meters in less than a minute. That is without fins! When I do my all out, with fins, I would be well behind! I am so amazed at how the best of the best just sail through water. Their sprint is a fast, fast human dash through water. Their goal is to be the fastest in human history through water. Mine is to watch them in wonder and just give my best to beat my own time...
But when the sprint is over and you are catching big gulps of air and can savor the time....it is one of the greatest moments. Watching Natalie and teammates is a thrill....doing it for myself is a truly breathless thrill!
Endurance laps are great. The sprint is the best more than minute I spend in water!!
Friday, October 22, 2010
Amelia Earhart Lives....Out There....
She has captivated my heart, for a long time.
Ameria Earhart. America's lone eagle female flyer.
I beieve she is alive, yes, alive, very alive.
No conspiracy theory here, just it is about what if we believe...
Can we be bold enough to believe?
This is not like denying that Santa Claus does not exist.
This is not saying it is snowing, when it is full sun.
But it is saying it is snowing...
And it is a cold rain that might....
Just might, turn to snow.
I wanted to think she and her partner flyer Fred Noonan found land.
That they made a decision to go "lost"....
She was still alive...
She is out there...
Come on, keep on believing...
Yes, no doubt, the evidence is there...she was found....
Or was she....actually no...
No one is really sure.....
Parents lose children....
Lovers lose each other....some just not forever...
Not all are lost...
Some return...for reunions..
Some come back from the lost....
It is important to believe in something.
It is important to give hope a chance....
It is important to be bold and refuse to lose...
Important, maybe it is more....
It is life itself, to have to believe...
To imagine there is a chance for life....
To refuse darkness and strive to see light...
Her spirit was bold, her force was strong...
Amelia Earhart. Gone?
I don't think so....
Living out there in the South Pacific? in China, Japan somewhere?
You can let your spirits soar..
Imagine...
Just like she did, after all....
That we could believe she lives....gives us a breathless moment..
When life itself has hope......
......Amelia lives....and she flies....in our hearts....
We must not deny her that....
We must hold that life alive....
Her story is bigger than life....
.....Amelia lives....out there....she is out there.....
When we can say that, more, if we can believe in the idea....
We can fly and soar, like her spirit does today....out there...
Ameria Earhart. America's lone eagle female flyer.
I beieve she is alive, yes, alive, very alive.
No conspiracy theory here, just it is about what if we believe...
Can we be bold enough to believe?
This is not like denying that Santa Claus does not exist.
This is not saying it is snowing, when it is full sun.
But it is saying it is snowing...
And it is a cold rain that might....
Just might, turn to snow.
I wanted to think she and her partner flyer Fred Noonan found land.
That they made a decision to go "lost"....
She was still alive...
She is out there...
Come on, keep on believing...
Yes, no doubt, the evidence is there...she was found....
Or was she....actually no...
No one is really sure.....
Parents lose children....
Lovers lose each other....some just not forever...
Not all are lost...
Some return...for reunions..
Some come back from the lost....
It is important to believe in something.
It is important to give hope a chance....
It is important to be bold and refuse to lose...
Important, maybe it is more....
It is life itself, to have to believe...
To imagine there is a chance for life....
To refuse darkness and strive to see light...
Her spirit was bold, her force was strong...
Amelia Earhart. Gone?
I don't think so....
Living out there in the South Pacific? in China, Japan somewhere?
You can let your spirits soar..
Imagine...
Just like she did, after all....
That we could believe she lives....gives us a breathless moment..
When life itself has hope......
......Amelia lives....and she flies....in our hearts....
We must not deny her that....
We must hold that life alive....
Her story is bigger than life....
.....Amelia lives....out there....she is out there.....
When we can say that, more, if we can believe in the idea....
We can fly and soar, like her spirit does today....out there...
The Dash to Freedom
Everybody has their frontier of fear
And their space where that fear meets freedom...
And the writer, the artist, the scientist, the traveller ...
Learns what sets the soul free...both within and with others...
The great athletes have it...
The great leaders have it...
The people of everyday living know it...
It is crippling fear of failure..
The fear of absolute rejection ...
The fear of being truly alone....
The brave step up...
The honest look up...
The true to their love...never look down...
Or back...
They know the moment of truth...
The air crackles with the lightning of the gifted moment...
The dream is ignited...
Reality is different...
At that moment...
It is the mad dash to freedom...
Up the hill like never before...
The sprint of life itself...
The breathless moment...
Ever in our heart...
It was always there...
When we saw it...
It became our dash to freedom...
Our sprint of life...
Once begun...
We are forever in the swim, the stride of champions...
They can never call cripled with fear...
They are the life runners of freedom...
Forever...
And their space where that fear meets freedom...
And the writer, the artist, the scientist, the traveller ...
Learns what sets the soul free...both within and with others...
The great athletes have it...
The great leaders have it...
The people of everyday living know it...
It is crippling fear of failure..
The fear of absolute rejection ...
The fear of being truly alone....
The brave step up...
The honest look up...
The true to their love...never look down...
Or back...
They know the moment of truth...
The air crackles with the lightning of the gifted moment...
The dream is ignited...
Reality is different...
At that moment...
It is the mad dash to freedom...
Up the hill like never before...
The sprint of life itself...
The breathless moment...
Ever in our heart...
It was always there...
When we saw it...
It became our dash to freedom...
Our sprint of life...
Once begun...
We are forever in the swim, the stride of champions...
They can never call cripled with fear...
They are the life runners of freedom...
Forever...
Friday, October 15, 2010
Born Conspiracy
Two days in Paris....fast trains, aggressive driving, Arc de Triomphe traffic....busted appointments....waiting long times for mysterious events and marginal people....strikes....public disturbances...beautiful faces and fashion....feels like the movie....including the photography and the fast moving events....
Bon soir, Paris....Bienvienue San Diego...
Bon soir, Paris....Bienvienue San Diego...
Thursday, October 14, 2010
The Book Is Out!
This is more of a note to potential readers than a journalistic piece.
I saw what the book looks like, as in the "Proof Copy" from Amazon yesterday via Skype from San Diego. I will be back there Saturday night from Paris, Germany, Holland over these last two weeks.
Fun to see your actual creation on Skype first time! Looks not bad! There will be lots of last edits before the final release, but it is almost there!
Funny, seems like some of my more important writing has taken place since the finishing of the book! That is a common disease of premature finalization for artists and creators. We all know the rush!
One day left for this trip, maybe one of the most important. And, like in writing, after I get home, there will be all the things I thought should have been said, done better.
The life of the creator is never quite complete! But we must live it. Auditions are rare. The play is taking place right now, as we go....we take our chances...we give our best, every day...
Fresh Paris coissants and coffee in the morning...so nice....almost as nice as those moments in California looking East as the sun rises to the smell of fresh coffee...
I saw what the book looks like, as in the "Proof Copy" from Amazon yesterday via Skype from San Diego. I will be back there Saturday night from Paris, Germany, Holland over these last two weeks.
Fun to see your actual creation on Skype first time! Looks not bad! There will be lots of last edits before the final release, but it is almost there!
Funny, seems like some of my more important writing has taken place since the finishing of the book! That is a common disease of premature finalization for artists and creators. We all know the rush!
One day left for this trip, maybe one of the most important. And, like in writing, after I get home, there will be all the things I thought should have been said, done better.
The life of the creator is never quite complete! But we must live it. Auditions are rare. The play is taking place right now, as we go....we take our chances...we give our best, every day...
Fresh Paris coissants and coffee in the morning...so nice....almost as nice as those moments in California looking East as the sun rises to the smell of fresh coffee...
Friday, October 8, 2010
The Heart of the Heart of the Artist
She never goes out boldly....
...she goes with her true art....
....that is bold....as bold as anyone's...
It is not her Name, or family name...
....she goes out with her true art....
....her true, own creation...
...she has known true free moments.....
She is not the Artist of the Times...
....she is the artist who has work...
... she can show on her hand the injuries of the painter's knife...
.....she has the passion to put it out....
Her Art is the art within us....it is life's breath captured on canvas,
.....life's mystery captured in print, in photo-art...
.....her message is her own stamp on the pulse of our lives...
.....it is modest, it is bold....it is definitive, visual, always brave....
.....it is her life stamp on the art of her own life and what she wants to give...
Her heart, this artist....
....she goes forth with the art within her....
....it is not famous....it is not meant to be famous...
....it may not be noted.....it may not be meant to be notable...
....but, it may be noted...
The heart of the heart of this artist....
.....expresses herself in her media....
....in paint....
....in charcoal...
....in sketch....
....in music....
....in media of every way...
....in business as a creative specialist...
....even in her dress....her own true beauty....
She is an eight year old Canadian who enjoys painting Mona Lisa....
She is an Israaeli who matches sketches with music...
She is from Philadelphia and wants to do drama plays...
She is from Beijing and has her poetry refined...
She is from Seoul and has her art underway....
She is from Pittsburgh, won awards for poetry, and is no longer with us....but her art is...
She is from New Mexico...she creates bold scapes of that place with few strokes..
She is from Colorado...she created her art in small objects, pine cones, sand, feathers...
She is from Maui, digital art is her new pastel, she has dealt with art longer than her life...
She is from Europe, yet has a business design for Asia...still emerging..
She is from everywhere....and her art is emerging...always, without end...from eight to ninety three, she spans ages, cultures, media, yet her passion is the same....to go boldly with her art....
If you ask her, she may not seem bold, but her passion inside is bold...
Her heart, as artist, is the whole, entire thing in one....
...it is everything she has to give...
....she needs to so deeply give....
.....and the whole world receives.....her.
The heart of the heart of the artist is now known...from the deepest, sweetest, and darkest places in the universe, she speaks out....she creates form, beauty...she does it without fear
Her own art comes from her own beauty, deep down....it is real...
....and what she expresses of her life vision for the world...
....that art has as much or more of her beauty..than could ever be expressed.....
It is her passion to create in the face of the unknown...to know those rare free moments...the bold dare to do something with words, ideas, paints, concepts in the absolute face of chaos.....what bolder could be known?
What more beauty could we ever know?... We know this artist....
...she goes with her true art....
....that is bold....as bold as anyone's...
It is not her Name, or family name...
....she goes out with her true art....
....her true, own creation...
...she has known true free moments.....
She is not the Artist of the Times...
....she is the artist who has work...
... she can show on her hand the injuries of the painter's knife...
.....she has the passion to put it out....
Her Art is the art within us....it is life's breath captured on canvas,
.....life's mystery captured in print, in photo-art...
.....her message is her own stamp on the pulse of our lives...
.....it is modest, it is bold....it is definitive, visual, always brave....
.....it is her life stamp on the art of her own life and what she wants to give...
Her heart, this artist....
....she goes forth with the art within her....
....it is not famous....it is not meant to be famous...
....it may not be noted.....it may not be meant to be notable...
....but, it may be noted...
The heart of the heart of this artist....
.....expresses herself in her media....
....in paint....
....in charcoal...
....in sketch....
....in music....
....in media of every way...
....in business as a creative specialist...
....even in her dress....her own true beauty....
She is an eight year old Canadian who enjoys painting Mona Lisa....
She is an Israaeli who matches sketches with music...
She is from Philadelphia and wants to do drama plays...
She is from Beijing and has her poetry refined...
She is from Seoul and has her art underway....
She is from Pittsburgh, won awards for poetry, and is no longer with us....but her art is...
She is from New Mexico...she creates bold scapes of that place with few strokes..
She is from Colorado...she created her art in small objects, pine cones, sand, feathers...
She is from Maui, digital art is her new pastel, she has dealt with art longer than her life...
She is from Europe, yet has a business design for Asia...still emerging..
She is from everywhere....and her art is emerging...always, without end...from eight to ninety three, she spans ages, cultures, media, yet her passion is the same....to go boldly with her art....
If you ask her, she may not seem bold, but her passion inside is bold...
Her heart, as artist, is the whole, entire thing in one....
...it is everything she has to give...
....she needs to so deeply give....
.....and the whole world receives.....her.
The heart of the heart of the artist is now known...from the deepest, sweetest, and darkest places in the universe, she speaks out....she creates form, beauty...she does it without fear
Her own art comes from her own beauty, deep down....it is real...
....and what she expresses of her life vision for the world...
....that art has as much or more of her beauty..than could ever be expressed.....
It is her passion to create in the face of the unknown...to know those rare free moments...the bold dare to do something with words, ideas, paints, concepts in the absolute face of chaos.....what bolder could be known?
What more beauty could we ever know?... We know this artist....
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Angry Heart...Beautiful Spirit
Here in Europe, one experiences amazing crosssroads of culture, pathways of life, spirit, heart and soul.
This young lady, of such youthful spirit and beauty, working hard in the restaurant I frequent, seemed so determined, so serious. I asked her in a tableside moment if she was happy....she said a quick "yes"...but her look said "no"...
She later told me people all her life said she looked angry, but she said she was not....she looked at me, as someone who is asking, "do you really care".....
We all get beat up by bosses, parents, teachers all our life trying to prove we are OK. Most of the time it is, if not OK....we are survivors....
This one, showed me real courage with her strong smile....she was all her life convincing people she is OK and not angry....the fact is, she has radiant qualities and could never be imagined as angry....unless, it came from places we all know are in our family treasure chest of life....
I told her, my question was only meant to compliment her....not bring anything but positive to what I saw was a joyful soul. I hope I was understood. It reminded me again....we share our friendship and our joy with someone's presence, and we just have to hope we may be understood....we try to do our best every day, in every way with who we are with....
We never know, unless we show ourselves caring first....then, we take our chances...
This young lady, of such youthful spirit and beauty, working hard in the restaurant I frequent, seemed so determined, so serious. I asked her in a tableside moment if she was happy....she said a quick "yes"...but her look said "no"...
She later told me people all her life said she looked angry, but she said she was not....she looked at me, as someone who is asking, "do you really care".....
We all get beat up by bosses, parents, teachers all our life trying to prove we are OK. Most of the time it is, if not OK....we are survivors....
This one, showed me real courage with her strong smile....she was all her life convincing people she is OK and not angry....the fact is, she has radiant qualities and could never be imagined as angry....unless, it came from places we all know are in our family treasure chest of life....
I told her, my question was only meant to compliment her....not bring anything but positive to what I saw was a joyful soul. I hope I was understood. It reminded me again....we share our friendship and our joy with someone's presence, and we just have to hope we may be understood....we try to do our best every day, in every way with who we are with....
We never know, unless we show ourselves caring first....then, we take our chances...
Monday, October 4, 2010
Leadership Emerging....
Rahm Emanuel is running for Mayor of Chicago. He has great credentials....he managed the White House under President Obama....he was also a US Congressman.
It is rare in our time when we see the rising star of a young, strong figure in Amarican politics....
This is a rising star.
His character is strong...his articulation and speech is poised for more.....watch this rising star!
It is rare in our time when we see the rising star of a young, strong figure in Amarican politics....
This is a rising star.
His character is strong...his articulation and speech is poised for more.....watch this rising star!
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