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Inspired by Thomas Hart Benton’s Spring Tryout (1946)

Every winter, without fail, by life, I am stolen away. Every year,it comes.The annual trial, demands more and more of me, as it tests my will. Yet, every year, to the season, to it’s chill and numbing gusts, to it’s harsh and freezing gales, I surrender. Afraid, I resign. I just let myself, be dragged…

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Inspired by N.C. Wyeth’s The Roaring Skipper (1914)

On every journey, and for every voyage, there is a point, when you can’t just go back,where there is no return. Some sail the seas, carefully with all courses, charted and planned, out of fear of being, thrown adrift and cast away. But other seamen, sail in search, surrendering themselves, to the sea and all…

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Inspired by Helen Frankenthaler’s Seeing the Moon on a Hot Summer Day (1987)

How do you find, what is lost? If something was misplaced, you search, and you scour, but what about time? What if your experience, within its stream was strayed, entire days absent and forgotten? Worse, what if self escaped you? What if, you were untethered, from the great chain, of your own being? Where would…

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Inspired by Edgar Degas’s Dancer Standing (1872)

It’s never easy, standing, no, never easy, once one has fallen. But in the falling, that’s where, life’s great gift is found, yes, that’s where, the truest of beauties lies. When one falls, one must rise twice! Remember the reason, the return is twofold! Not only is there power, in seeking, your balance once more!No,…

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Inspired by Zen Forest-Sayings of the Masters (252)

Know your place, and know zen! Look ahead, and become one, with the world! Look below, and be grounded, by the Earth! Look above, and be blessed, under the Heavens!