Monday, May 26, 2008

The essence of art

I heard today on a Lenswork podcast that Tony Bennett said in an interview that Count Basie's music lifts the human spirit, which is the essence of art.

Lifting the human spirit, that is the essence of art. I love that!


Friday, May 23, 2008

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Joy




She's smiling
Her little hand in mine
The world is good

-A.T.



"She's weeping
Tiny head on my shoulder
The world is compassion
The world is good"

-G.T.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Freedom




Take me away
From all this brown
All this grey
Take me away
From these haggard people
Who all obey
Automatic dictates of an amorphous mass
They can't name.
Take me away
Let me escape
I dream of a place
Where the sun fades misery
To a bearable state
Where laughter dances
On its own mistakes
And love blankets all
With gentle petals of grace.

Saturday, March 8, 2008

All in all


Agression? Timidity? Beauty? Repulsion?...
Everything is in all
And all is in everything.
And it all changes
All the time
Depending on where
In ourselves
We look from.

Friday, February 29, 2008

One and the same



Atoms
Millions of them
In clusters
Out of clusters
Darting
Reaching
Mingling
Pulsating
Filling space
Filling time
Everywhere
All at once
It's you
It's me
The same.


Tuesday, February 26, 2008