Category Thoughts About Art & Culture

Isn’t Up to Me

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I tell you I have no time for art although, I seem to find a way to pass my studio; I stay away. When I go, I’m overwhelmed. Too much mess to contemplate. So, what exactly is the question? Is it why I don’t make it priority if […]

Sarabande for Missing Magic, Redux

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Missing magic, miracles all vanished, hidden from everyone. From vast spaces gone. Into unseen minuscule interstices, between atoms disappeared. Despite clues, maps and legends, whispered rumors, whereabouts remained unknown Some mounted quests. Heroes came forth. Solo adventurers, robber’s trusts, fellowships. All trekked far, endured miles uncounted. Summits scaled, […]

We Might Roam

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ O, to see our brilliant world again reflected in ocean’s waters of blue. Sparkling around a dwindling white sail, while wondering where it is wandering. Is it following the wind’s four quarters guided so by an engraved compass rose. Or will it return to a safe harbor? From […]

Far Too Late

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Even when I have much to say, it doesn’t seem to matter as I listen to the pundits, they whine and buzz and natter. Though, I suppose, more people listen to them than to me. So what I have to say doesn’t mean what it means, I see. […]

Reminding Us to Remember

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Going in, Leading Out ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Are you able to read the signs? The ones which are written and those which are not? The ones engraved on the past, those noticed or ignored now. What of those carried on the wind, waves from the near or […]

Linger in Ways

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Artists, writers, others may bring us emotions they felt but could only express in a language not yet understood and perhaps never spoken. Think Wolfe, Picasso, Plath and so many you and I have never known. Or, at least, not today. We may only hope that someday we […]

Something My Father Taught Me

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ The frog am a queer little bird him am. When him walk him hop him do. When him sit down, him sit down On him little tail, which him hardly ain’t got ~~~~~ Peace is Purpose, Nonviolence is Strength, Diversity is Unity, Empathy is Empowerment  Unite the World! […]

Love is All

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Ancient before time, impenetrable void waited. Crawled from its atomic shell; instantaneous illumination flared. Newborn this moment. A swirling figure moves, is every moment. Innocently wise, hopeful, in constant conflict. Cooperation in every interchange. Full of wonder, every and all stories. Worth living for, growing, expansive. Worth dying […]

May Sweetly Smell

People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ We are not well. How can you tell? Why, it is the smell But let’s not dwell. Let’s sit, think a spell. Can we excise or expel Bad eggs and their shells? We might then excel I mean, who can tell? We may sweetly smell If we can […]

Just Wait

A Positive Little Ditty About Our Future People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ And again, today I got reminded Western Monarch butterflies hover, 2,000 left, on the edge, extinction. Because I imagine we are as well, I cannot imagine that this matters. What’s that? You think I am crazy. There are over 7 ½ […]