No one who is following an elephant has to knock the dew off the grass.
—Ashanti saying (Ghana)
7 June 2014
5 June 2014
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
—Pablo Picasso
4 June 2014
2 June 2014
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye; it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
—Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
Thanks to Celes Davar for the quotable.
1 June 2014
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
—Milton Berle (1908-2002)
31 May 2014
Eagle Feather
Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba
I feel deeply moved and honoured to have been adopted yesterday as an Anishinabe brother by Alma Kakikepinace, an elder and Eagle Clan Mother, at a fireside 60th birthday celebration attended by several dozen close friends and family members. Alma smudged with sweetgrass, performed drum-songs, and presented me with an eagle feather as a symbolic rite of passage and mark of distinction— I pray that I prove to be worthy of the values inherent with the receipt of this honour— honesty, truth, strength, courage, wisdom, power, and freedom.
Miigwetch, miigwetch… (photos by Ian McCausland).
28 May 2014
It’s all done already… it just needs to be made.
Erik Spiekermann’s “plan for the future.”
26 May 2014
60.
It takes a while to get like this… apparently I’m a sexegenarian now. (-:
25 May 2014
We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and we trouble our death by thoughts about life.
—Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
24 May 2014
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
—D.W. Winnicott (1896-1971)