Life is An Adventure

Understanding how the world works, politics, economics, basic human psychology, are all relatively easy to grasp. But you don’t grasp reality and you don’t grasp art that’s attuned to it. Art is not a homily, not ideology or tribal marker. Art restores the world to its irreducible wholeness from the parcelling and privations of the mind. Art is a love letter to the world, address unknown. — Anonymous

“I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully, with all my heart and soul, and every faculty.”

— Juliette Drouet

“Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.”

— Petrarch

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things — Dogen Zenji

We are wandering in an earthly paradise, if we could only know it. It’s here, it’s now, and we are off in some fantasy world in our heads and hearts. Art is one of the remedies to this, our mental fogginess. It is one of the ways humans have invented to remove the camouflage we have dressed the world in.