Personification & The Interplay Between I and Other
The personification of nature and inanimate objects is age-old, something we humans have done as far back as we remember. …
Tag Archives: Philosophy
Evolution Entwined with Love
I like to think this all has meaning, this grand scope of things from the birth of stars to the …
Nature and Human Consciousness, No Separation
Every time I write about nature I get deep into human consciousness. You can’t really separate the two. There is …
Vast Emptiness, Vastly Full
There are a few refrains that I turn to again and again when I want to get a clearer sense …
Truth & Beauty, My Flower Paintings
If “Beauty is truth, truth, beauty,” as Keats’ poem claims, then what do my paintings of flowers, my attempt to …
Art More Real than “Me”
When poet Jorie Graham was three-years-old, she swirled her fingers through her mother’s still-wet oil painting. Her horrified mother picked …
Between Dusk and Dawn a New Year Appears to Appear
And yet we know it’s all just one continuous unfolding as one day or year slips seamlessly into the next. …
Satie’s Gnossienne, Forking Paths, and Time’s Ever Presence
Time-travelling—that’s what it feels like when listening to Erik Satie’s Gnossienne. When I close my eyes and let the music …
In Defense of Joy
We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our …
“More to Me Than Time Allows to Be”
I wrote this years ago, a kind of declaration for a state of being with which I passionately identified, although …
