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: 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.

....

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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painting: Neighborhood ::: poem: I Live Where Strangers Smile (28-29) [30-31]

History & Culture: urban design  ||  Community: walkable-friendly city  ||  Thought-Feeling-Spirit: with a smile  ||  Painting Inspired by Poem  ||  Medium: acrylic wash on paper

poem text: 

I live where strangers smile--where we acquire kinship-by-encounter
on common paths with crossing points--
where the names we seem to have forgotten
are those we have yet to learn.

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painting: Sun on Their Faces (detail) ::: poem: Turn to Sun ::: (32-33) [34-35]

Science-Nature: earth-spin-orbit, Buckminster Fuller, Helio-photo-tropism  ||  History & Culture: rural towns & fields  ||  Experience: long drive  ||  Thought-Feeling-Spirit: wistful conjecture  ||  Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other  || Medium: acrylic on canvas

poem text:

This early morning
he passes from Mississippi headwater
out of woodland and wetland
across the Red River onto North Dakota
—rolling plain of North Dakota—

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painting: Glimpse of Old Town ::: poem: Will Archeologist Dig Us Up? (34-35) [36-37]

Science-Nature: archeology, soil erosion-accretion, composting  ||  History & Culture: today as history, what survives?  ||  Community || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: humility, wistful conjecture  || Painting Inspired by Poem  || Medium: acrylic wash on paper

poem text:

We inter kitchen waste in our garden where it helps us produce
tomatoes,
lettuce,
and beans,

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drawing: Watchdog ::: poem: Good Day, Passers-by ::: (38-39) [40-41]

Science-Nature: prairie dog, man-nature-conflict, interdependent species, habitat conservation  ||  History & Culture: "taming" of prairie  ||  Community: among-with animals  || Thought-Feeling-Spirit: attitude adjustment, concern  || Existing Painting & Poem Reflect Each Other  || Pencil Study

poem text:

Good day, Passer-by,
I watch you pass.
I am pleased when you stop.

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poem: Fortuitous Stop in McCook ::: (42-43) [44-45]

Science-Nature: landscape, townscape  ||  History & Culture: architecture, fame  ||  Experience: chance observation  ||  Thought-Feeling-Spirit: a bit of fantasy, thrill or recognition

poem text:

We drive east
on western high plain,
through hill-full prairie,
under afternoon sun,
into the Nebraska town of McCook.

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painting: Flip Flops ::: poem: November 5: Below the Ankles ::: (50-51) [52-53]

History & Culture: styles-fads, groups-cliques, differences  ||  Experience: a walk  ||  Thought-Feeling-Spirit: humor  ||  Painting Inspired by Poem  ||  Medium: acrylic wash on paper

poem text:

November Five.Alive in a long, warm autumn.
A walk across the college campus.
Feelings of being over-dressed and over-aged.
A day to look around.

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