Sometimes the world seems so vast it’s easy to get lost. You drive the best you can, but the road is narrow. The clutch keeps slipping, your load shifts in every curve, and sleep hovers above you like a dark angel. There’s an ache where your heart used to be.
Maybe you’re not really lost? Maybe you just wandered a long way off. Still . . . home is far away and a rising tide keeps coming in.
Like many artists, I spend a lot of time in the company of my friend, Imagination. Like the rest of us, my friend often gets thirsty. Hungry too, and it craves nourishment. Favorite foods include the sounds of birds and the music of Sergei Prokofiev. Rivers and trees are also tasty, and so is dirt.
William Blake wrote about seeing a World “in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower.” He was right, says my friend. “Put on a jacket and warm socks and give of yourself a couple of hours to drawing this nameless plant. It will talk with you in the voices of stars. Are you listening?”
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