The Slippery Fish

It is not love in which I believe. That is to say the implication of the word. The word I use, it is easy. It is it’s meaning that holds no reality for me.

Instead I accept what I know to be true about this love of which we speak. I believe in the fantasy. I believe in make-believe love. Threaded a thousand times with desire. Desire to cross over, to transcend, to step into the television.

This is not our fate. We are stuck here in this physical space only able to catch a glimpse of another soul. It is painful at that, being only a glimpse. Our souls ache to make contact. To mesh and gel.

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Each soul needs something different. Some need constant mesh, others need to clash and retreat.

We get close in our physical love making, and in our gestures but we don’t make it. And so creates our obsession. Obsession to capture this slippery fish instead of admiring it letting it go.

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The Art of the Ecstatic: Anders Hansen

Though in the midst of struggle, Anders Hansen experienced the sublime last weekend, as any of us can when we open up to the ecstatic moment.heron1.jpg

I had the most marvelous experience drawing in the park Saturday with Diane Podolsky…I stuck my feet and easel in the river, painting the water movements, but I yielded the field to a young green heron: we watched him stalking the fish for 1/2 hour (he caught 3 or 4) with incredible heronesque Tai-chi movements of his huge lovely yellow-green feet. It was a treat to see him walking past my easel and a bottle of ink standing on a rock. I did a bunch of cartoons of him that make me very happy. Mars very bright tonight after midnight I hear…

Cheers!
Anders