Personally I am struggling with a kind of deep unease that seems to go beyond politics, environmental concerns etc. It, perhaps is a feeling that the direction our species feels misguided and doomed (!) and I'm an optimist! It is like a grief in the heart, yet, at the same time I am noticing loving and good acts more vividly, I am speaking my own truth in a loud, clear voice and feel a huge expanse of love and care for people as they go about their lives.
Daily, I look at my painting and question, Is it enough? What am I doing? How will it change anything? ... yet inside, my spirit burns with an inner reassurance that to try, is everything, to try with your very own, beautiful and flawed voice.
You are certainly trying and doing more than trying - and your essays are present to be found and your photographs stirring questions. We care Robert, enough to scour our own souls for answers and hopeful remedies to this mess. Thank you for both your courage and your doubt.
Thank you. So heart felt and pure. This touches and sets off a few ideas....will you send me copies of say three of your images? I have an idea.....thank you for your kind words....robert
Thank you for sharing this Robert,
Personally I am struggling with a kind of deep unease that seems to go beyond politics, environmental concerns etc. It, perhaps is a feeling that the direction our species feels misguided and doomed (!) and I'm an optimist! It is like a grief in the heart, yet, at the same time I am noticing loving and good acts more vividly, I am speaking my own truth in a loud, clear voice and feel a huge expanse of love and care for people as they go about their lives.
Daily, I look at my painting and question, Is it enough? What am I doing? How will it change anything? ... yet inside, my spirit burns with an inner reassurance that to try, is everything, to try with your very own, beautiful and flawed voice.
You are certainly trying and doing more than trying - and your essays are present to be found and your photographs stirring questions. We care Robert, enough to scour our own souls for answers and hopeful remedies to this mess. Thank you for both your courage and your doubt.
Sincerely and with Respect,
Helen
Thank you. So heart felt and pure. This touches and sets off a few ideas....will you send me copies of say three of your images? I have an idea.....thank you for your kind words....robert