Category Thoughts About Art & Culture

I Often Wonder

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth Water Feature ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Remember your problem or anyone else’s may be opportunity another person awaited. Shown in many films when the understudy, second fiddle steps in at the very last minute stars, and performs absolutely magnificently. Not what we hope but should, when replaced. While […]

Phrygian Resolve

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! A House Divided ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~   Given enough, would we live differently? Enough what time money ambition talent? The answer may be different for each person. But suppose it was in our power to grant such a boon to every person. Would we? What if it […]

A Game of Chants

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I am but a poor channel. That’s all that can be said. I’m tossing darts at a panel while chanting for my bread. ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment  Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip […]

To Arrive or Return

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ What are the things we pushed down and bury deep inside? Memories and feelings we hide. Is it more than this, I wonder/? What about earlier intentions, hopes and dreams and prayers all that we wanted to believe and life said not so fast, bub? Some rebel, fight […]

Sixth Extinction Blues

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Here’s Looking at You ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Humans are nature and nature is them. We’re near closure. Will we spin again? ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment  Unite the World! ~~~~~ See more of my creative offerings at: Philip Brent […]

Slaked and Sated

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Falling Water ~~~~~ The water descends in trickling rills.Light plays on the surface as it turns,flows together into a deepening pool.Sunlight strikes brief, bright sparks.Separate, anticipated yet unexpected.Their beauty from light sweet treasureWhere next will we discover lifegivingwater which we can never quaff. Still, We perceive our thirst has […]

Tag, You’re It

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Zwilling Rabenburg ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Out in the world again, on an unseasonably hot day. In the car watching cactus bloom after torrential rains. So, we live day to day, learn to take what comes as it may. No reason to ruin our time together, over the […]

The Time Has Come

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ And now the time has come, he said, to wisely wonder where we are. When few have all, many beg for bread, it appears we have gone far too far. Does anyone now even remember where we thought we were going? Did we start this trip one December? […]

Me, Myself and Why

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Wings ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ I’m a clever fellow, if I say so myself. I make green from blue and yellow When I pull paint from off my shelf, I paint pictures, then some I’d sell Must market better if I am to win. Something I’m not doing […]

The Spaces Between Redux

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Fire Seeks Surface ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Shall we talk then, shall we sing, discuss Rachmaninoff, analyze Proust, remembrance of future things? Will you tell me no one knows what tomorrow brings? As musicians fingers fly, over strings, along the keys; quickly, quickly, come listen. Not only notes, […]