Inebriation by Optimism ::: (4-5) [6-7]

Science-Nature: weather  ||  Experience: adversity  || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: optimism

painting: Sun on Their Faces ::: (6-7) [8-9]

Medium: acrylic on canvas

poem: For The Creative Day ::: (8-9) [10-11]

Science & Nature: challenges to species & planet, mortality  ||  History & Culture: generations, technology, abundance  ||  Thought-Feeling-Spirit: optimism, pessimism

poem text:

Yes,
we are passionate about our project.
We are passionate not because we presume
that we,
finally,
are the ones to save our imperfect species and threatened planet,
but because it is our turn.

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painting: Winter Trek's Reward ::: (10-11) [12-13]

Science-Nature: Season-Winter  || Medium: watercolor, plein air

painting: Warm Refuge ::: poem: With Cold Numbing Your Cheeks ::: (12-13) [14-15]

Science-Nature: winter weather  || Experience: warmth, privacy in public  ||  Community: city || Painting Inspired by Poem  || Medium: acrylic wash on paper

poem text:

With cold numbing your cheeks
and hood hiding your face,
come through the wind and door to the empty chair.
Then a view,
facing street,
heated stove,
rippled heat.

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painting: In the Hands of Time ::: poem: Hand-Me-Down of Hand-Me-Downs ::: (14-15) [16-17]

Science-Nature: birth-aging  ||  History-Culture: generations  ||  Community: family ||  Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other  ||   Medium: acrylic on canvas

poem text:

It is privilege beyond merit
to see a hand-me-down of hand-me-downs
of shell and flesh security.

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painting: Snowlight ::: poem: Let Beautiful Winter, poem: My Common Stove ::: (16-17) [18-19]

Science-Nature: Season-winter  ||  History & Culture: wealth in the work of others  ||  Experience: observation-contemplation  ||  Community: family-neighbor-stranger ||  Thought-Feeling-Spirit: wishful, prayerful, hopeful  || Poem (Let B...) Inspired by Painting  ||  Existing Painting & Poem (My Common ...) reflect each other  ||  Medium: acrylic on canvas

Poems text:

Let beautiful winter spiral up

from each autumn's gold

to uncoil gladly

into same earthen chalice

from which dutiful summer must spring.

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My stove knows how to burn its firewood,
how to respond
to me who knows so little of what it knows,
to me who does not know how to make a stove.

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