Category Archives: All part of the process

Ring the Bells and Shine the Light

Posted on November 12, 2016 by randomyriad

Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There is a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in. Is it a coincidence that the man who wrote this song died now?  Lets make that light … Continue reading →

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Quiet Please! I Am Trying to Hear The Ghosts Behind The Scenery.

Posted on August 29, 2016 by randomyriad

  I have always felt that there was a dialogue going on imperceptible to my inadequate senses like voices mumbling in another room, mumbling made up of light and waves and interruptions and strings of events, as if, with a … Continue reading →

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Vibrations of Line and Color Inspired by Kandinsky

Posted on July 18, 2016 by randomyriad

  Last week I made two rough studies on 140 lb watercolor paper to choose the pallet. Narrowing the colors down orange, yellow, brown and violet oxides with some permanent violet dark and burnt orange and black and white for shading. For the final … Continue reading →

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Summer Evening Mountain with Accidental Birds and Train

Posted on June 26, 2016 by randomyriad

I was following a little bird, a killdeer leading me away from her nest with a convincing act of being wounded. I was trying to focus the image of the bird huddled quivering on the sidewalk, when she took off, fluttering and gliding, disappearing into the … Continue reading →

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Becoming Awake

Posted on April 17, 2016 by randomyriad

I found this amazing passage on A Pilgrim in Narnia, a blog I have followed for years, as part of a longer piece. In these few paragraphs, Annie Dillard puts into words the most accurate description of maturing consciousness that I have … Continue reading →

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