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BIRD ON THE WIRE by Leonard Cohen
Like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
like a knight from some old fashioned book
I have saved all my ribbons for thee.
If I, if I have been unkind,
I hope that you can just let it go by.
If I, if I have been untrue
I hope you know it was never to you.
Like a baby, stillborn,
like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
and by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.
I saw a beggar leaning on his wooden crutch,
he said to me, "You must not ask for so much."
And a pretty woman leaning in her darkened door,
she cried to me, "Hey, why not ask for more?"
Oh like a bird on the wire,
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
THE PHOENIX HOPE
"The phoenix hope
can wing her way through the desert skies
and still defying fortune's spite
revive from ashes and rise."
~Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
WADE IN THE WATER
AS ONCE THE WINGED ENERGY OF DELIGHT by Rainer Maria Rilke
As once the winged energy of delight
carried you over childhood's dark abysses,
now beyond your own life build the great
arch of unimagined bridges.
carried you over childhood's dark abysses,
now beyond your own life build the great
arch of unimagined bridges.
Wonders happen if we can succeed
in passing through the harshest danger;
but only in a bright and purely granted
achievement can we realize the wonder.
in passing through the harshest danger;
but only in a bright and purely granted
achievement can we realize the wonder.
To work with Things in the indescribable
relationship is not too hard for us;
the pattern grows more intricate and subtle,
and being swept along is not enough.
relationship is not too hard for us;
the pattern grows more intricate and subtle,
and being swept along is not enough.
Take your practiced powers and stretch them out
until they span the chasm between two
contradictions ... For the god
wants to know himself in you.
until they span the chasm between two
contradictions ... For the god
wants to know himself in you.
BEGINNER'S MIND
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
~Charles Darwin
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure
and the intelligent are full of doubt."
~Bertrand Russell
"Being sure of yourself means you're a fool."
~Jenny Holzer
PATRONAGE
"From the time Cézanne first left Aix, at the age of twenty-two, Louis-Auguste [Cézanne's father] paid his bills, even when Cézanne gave every indication of being nothing more than a failed dilettante. But for Zola, Cézanne would have remained an unhappy banker's son in Provence; but for Pissarro, he would never have learned how to paint; but for Vollard (at the urging of Pissarro, Renoir, Degas, and Monet), his canvases would have rotted away in some attic; and, but for his father, Cézanne's long apprenticeship would have been a financial impossibility. That is an extraordinary list of patrons. The first three—Zola, Pissarro, and Vollard—would have been famous even if Cézanne never existed, and the fourth was an unusually gifted entrepreneur who left Cézanne four hundred thousand francs when he died. Cézanne didn't just have help. He had a dream team in his corner. This is the final lesson...success is highly contingent on the efforts of others."
~Malcolm Gladwell
HISTORY OF ART
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WILLEM DE KOONING
"The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time."
~Willem de Kooning
SWINE FLU
BLASPHEMY ?
PUBLICITY
"Get someone else to blow your horn
and the sound will carry twice as far."
~Will Rogers
DON'T WORRY BABY
WORLD BUILDER
LET GO
SPIDER WEBS
"Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them." ~Anacharsis
COMING HOME ~ DM on Interlochen
Toward the end of high school, I left home to attend a private boarding school in Michigan called Interlochen Arts Academy.
Interlochen was for me a magical place, populated by individualists, social misfits, and eccentrics — kids who, like me, were passionate about art.
I loved Interlochen. For the first time in my life, I was surrounded by creative people my own age: musicians, painters, actors, dancers...it was like coming home. Interlochen was where I learned the discipline required to build a life in the arts, and where I learned how rewarding an artist's life can be.
OCCAM'S AESTHETIC RAZOR
"I'd rather hear Thad Jones miss a note
than hear Freddie Hubbard make twelve."
~Miles Davis
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right.
But there are older and simpler and better words,
and those are the ones I use.”
~Ernest Hemingway
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
~Leonardo da Vinci
I LOVE YOU
ALL THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE
CELESTIAL ROOT
USA, USO
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW
"That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above,
and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below,
to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing."
~The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below,
to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing."
~The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus