The Sea
Trying to Find a Bright Spot
Today I will paint. The world around me seems to be filled with so much hate and ill feelings, I am tired, my mind will not absorb any more of the politic right and wrong. Who is right all of the time, and who is not wrong some of the time.
I live near the Sea. Today I will absorb the light, the blueness of happiness that splashes into the air, little orbs of healing and pleasure. The paintings are of the Sea and the Kelp Forests that are a source of Food. Food for the body and my soul.
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| Kelp Woman |
Finding the bright spot should give me the restful pause to be the self I remember when I was 10. I celebrate that young girl, entering to her emerging awareness of the possibilities of being just herself. Going back is also projecting my imagination into the future frailties of our world, hence the paintings of Kelp Woman.
The purple sea urchins are killing the Kelp Forests. The Starfishes are a keystone species, and they are dying due to the warming of the Oceans. The Starfishes eat the purple urchins and help the kelp to thrive.
There is one book would be the one that I would have if I could have only one. 'The Starthrower” by Loren Eiseley is a book with visual words painting stories about nature's powers of our existence of which we can only wonder. The stories have remained with me for many years, and I hope that you dear readers can find this book, for you too will find memories of your own that are called up when your read this little tome of wonderment's...You could perhaps find your own spot of restful happiness.
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