Category Thoughts About Art & Culture
What Else?
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! You. Stop. Right Now. Whatever else you are doing, besides reading these words, and I know you’re doing something else, stop. In a world where multitasking is the norm and dealing with disparate desires and duties isthe only way to survive, simply doing one thing feels foolish, wasteful. Perhaps, […]
Quirks Work
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! What a Lovely Young Lady ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Writing in the first person can I be I sure I am writing as me? If I think I describe true events, what in my mind’s eye I see. Can I recount truthfully pictures I find lurking in my […]
The Ultimate Story
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ No matter how empty I may feelor how creative I hope I am.Does it matter in the long run?The answer is yes and no.Despite the finish line,we all must run the race.Run and race but metaphorsfor love, sorrow, pain, and cheer.They speak of all we fear and desire.The […]
Between the Atoms
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Every grain of sand that pings the glass. Every blood-drop shed may be your last. Every breath shared has history and time. Every step taken and each hill you climb. Parts of you sustained grass, filled the air and grew flowers, trees, leaves, animals. Despite what comprises you, […]
Never Understanding; It Will Not
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ So many people believe themselves the weavers of our tapestry or that it was woven for them alone. One way they are right; their actions creating the warp and the weft, life’s visage. They are also wrong. This tapestry’s design existed longer than they’ve been alive or could […]
As Every Parent
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ What have I to offer youthat no one has ever thought?The truth we know, says nothingand means less than zero.Each new day brings fresh vision,as all babies’ first cries echoevery sunrise we have known.Yet they speak a language both love and death understand. Hope tells us to hold […]
When I Reach Home
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ How might I discover the way back? Do I look for signs, follow the river? I know in time, I will cross the river. Without a boatman or spectral figure. I think I will not be dressed in black it’s the absence of color and vision. I’ve seen […]
Staggering On in the Time of Covid
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ I feel like the pandemic and its aftermath have knocked the stuffing out of me, especially my creativity. Yet, I know my reaction, my response is controlled by me. Doesn’t that make it sound simple? Not only have I rarely darkened my studio door, but I also feel […]
Let Us Speak
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! ~~~~~ Please, can speak in present tense to discuss what we say matter to us. What is this? Do you even know? A lack of lifeguards, unvaccinated swimmers who congregate outside? Is it cops being killed, that’s terrible, or random murders of black people. White supremacy may rule you […]
Will Always Be
People Over Politics, World Over Wealth! Ducks in A Row ~ Philip Brent Harris ~~~~~ Does your life feel like a Mobius strip, an infinitely endless high wire? Never getting anywhere, still you trip. Or like a spiral, going lower, climbing higher? Perhaps the spiral of a hypnotist’s disc? Do you fall off one watching […]
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