You are looking at a great view, like a canyon or a mountain range, the clouds or the stars, and someone says, “That makes me feel small.” Usually, they will have all this gooey wonder in their voice and say it like this, “Doesn’t that make you feel small?” No. Looking at something big does … Continue reading “Do You Feel Small When You Look At Something Big?”
This date last year, I was trying to get from Campo, CA, at the Mexican border, to Houser Creek, sixteen miles or so away, and I am not sure about the spelling. For four days, I could not get over one little mountain. I kept running out of water because was going so slow. My … Continue reading “Thinking Of The Pacific Crest Trail Again.”
They do not care what people think. Context delimits the meaning. When Cersei Lannister says it, she means she does dot give a damn about anything they think at all about anything, and certainly, she cares least about what they think of her. That is one extreme. Another, well, that might be wearing a giant … Continue reading “Some People Sometimes Say”
Except he would have been using wilder color. I got bored by wild color. I got bored by color entirely for the many years I took to using only ink washes and big brushes that came to points. My favorite brush cost sixty-five dollars. Every time I tried using a cheaper brush, I could not … Continue reading “The “Mature Monet” Style”
Like the wind my life cycles are. From one direction strongly for months then nothing, and then it goes another direction for many more months, stops, sputters, dies, and then starts in again with random flurries here and there, and then again at last from the same direction again persisting. Relentless. I am like that. … Continue reading “Art Again”
Got in a nice long walk today using the excuse of going to the CVS for a heart med reload. I have had my back “go out” since I was a teen. For three days, agony, for another two, merely perpetual ache, and then? Gone. So today I walked again. “Four miles every other day,” … Continue reading “What Is Life For?”
Nothing serious. Simply quick notes. Incomplete. Dashed off. The Media As Memory
I believe in simple tools. If you cannot accomplish the task with simple tools, you do not rate complex tools. A hand-held power plane is difficult to use. It is difficult to use for those who are adept at hand planes. One slightest error, and a vast swath of wood has been removed. hand planes … Continue reading “Simple Tools”
Think about it. If you have the power to create, you remain undefeated no matter how many defeats you may suffer. I can find no exception.
That is what not doing art is, if it is because you are not “feeling it.” I would liken that to the door to a stove: You want to heat things up? Open the door; you want to cool it all down? Close the door. This is along the lines of, “Whatever you decide, whether … Continue reading “Did You Suddenly Lose Your Power?”