difficulty, discovery, and destiny

To fly we have to have resistance. (Maya Lin)

In 1981, at age 21 and while still an undergraduate, Lin won a public design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, beating out 1,441 other competition submissions.[8] The black cut-stone masonry wall, with the names of 58,261 fallen soldiers carved into its face,[9] was completed in late October 1982 and dedicated on November 13, 1982.[10] The wall is granite and V-shaped, with one side pointing to the Lincoln Memorial and the other to the Washington Monument.[9]

You will learn to enjoy the process... and to surrender your need to control the result. You will discover the joy of practising your creativity. The process, not the product, will become your focus. (Julia Cameron)



All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. (Rumi)

What we desire

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation. (Paul Klee)

Paul Klee The Red Balloon 1922

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. (Franz Kafka)

 I wouldn't mind having a new computer right now!

Broken computers and other tales of woe

I have a refrigerator that is 20 year old. It cost a quarter of the amount of  my 6 year old  Apple computer.
Why is it a 6 year old computer is obsolete. I can't even get the parts to fix it. What do I do with it?
My work Dell lap top at three years old  is approaching old age.  This is a crazy system. I understand technology is rapidly changing, but I have a great monitor which I can't use and some other features that I should be able to use but are gone forever.  If I spent $2000.00 on a washing machine I would expect it to last forever.  I recently bought a 1997 Honda accord with 80,000 miles on it. I am sure that it will last longer that my next computer ( which I haven't purchased yet).

The reason I am writing about this is that it has impaired my ability to  upload photos and posts on this blog.
I will try to get going because I still  have lots to muse about. But I still don't have a new Apple.  :(

Dreams

I dream my paintings, then I paint my dreams. (Vincent van Gogh)

Impossible Dream lyrics by Mitch Leigh from Man of LaMancha
To dream the impossible dream


To fight the unbeatable foe

To bear with unbearable sorrow

To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong

To love pure and chaste from afar

To try when your arms are too weary

To reach the unreachable star



This is my quest

To follow that star

No matter how hopeless

No matter how far



To fight for the right

Without question or pause

To be willing to march into Hell

For a heavenly cause



And I know if I'll only be true

To this glorious quest

That my heart will lie peaceful and calm

When I'm laid to my rest



And the world will be better for this

That one man, scorned and covered with scars

Still strove with his last ounce of courage

To reach the unreachable star