is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
~Socrates
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enough
I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? ~Van Gogh
A photographer edits out our smartphones to show our strange and lonely new world
Please click for Pickersgill’s “Removed” photo series: Source: A photographer edits out our smartphones to show our strange and lonely new world
Between Darkness and Light
Beautiful photos, words & concept by Steve McCurry.
Broken & Beautiful
I never know what I’m going to do in art, whether literary or visual. Yet I’ve recently been inspired by the concept Broken & Beautiful since we all are, one way or another.
One of the TedTalk speakers points out that the chance of you or I existing is 1 in 400,000,000,000, which makes each of us inherently beautiful.
Yet most of us are also broken one way or another and we’ll all experience death and possibly illness and old age. Yet we’re also brand new within seven years, all of our cells replaced, some replicating 10 to the 22nd power every second.
While these numbers are unfathomable to me, I fully grasp how vulnerable and resilient we are.
Though I thought Broken & Beautiful was an original idea, an internet search demonstrated that others are working with this concept. Still, I love the theme and will continue using eggs to explore it.
Why eggs? They’re gorgeous: their shape, texture and range of interior and exterior colors. They’re also the beginning of life for many species and must be broken for that life to live independently. So I’ve broken and eaten the eggs (yum) and also knit the heart-scarf.
To our beauty and resilience as well as the power of our vulnerability and ways that we’re broken.
Sound
Poetry doesn’t exist to give you prose. It’s this other thing. It is something that has to do with the sound of words, the sound of letters, the spaces between words, letters, how words connect to the mind and to the throat at the same time.
