Art's Role

"A great deal of why people write, why we make art, why we paint - because the very 

activity of turning in the direction of art is turning in the direction of seeing with more saturation, fullness, amazement . . .  . When I am facing the abyss and feeling the abyss, 

I have learned that what is curative is to look for the simple astonishment that is always present." - Jane Hirshfield

As a blossom

of spring

I go along

nature's path

Reinventing myself.

Wilderness to explore 

where one color begins

another takes over

Life in all layers.

In palomino light

Summer ponies dapple the sky

whipping tails

until unbridled night races

nickering

tossing

his ebony mane

Twilight nudges

slumbering sky

with wings 

of possibility

while dawn hugs 

stars to sleep.

Each flower smiles with me.

How green, how fresh all that grows.

How cool the wind blows.

Peace is in every step.

It turns the endless path to joy.

- Thich Nhat Hanh