Archive for the 'Neighbors' category

Brave artist tends gardens and relationships…

July 3, 2009 7:17 pm

Gloria and me

I met Gloria a few years ago, and I immediately knew she was special. My first instinct was to work an angle to capture her on film somehow, thankfully that pursuit proved impossible and I had to settle for something much better. I don’t even feel quite right about trying to describe her at all anymore.

Some have discovered her art and poetry, but only a few will have the privilege to walk in her garden.

Q & A…

June 26, 2009 3:07 pm

Dear friend,

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.

~Rainer Maria Rilke

Delivered by a neighborhood friend at just the right time.

Gloria’s secret garden

June 19, 2009 12:25 pm

I ran away

To her secret garden

Pine needles and leafy cover

Potted plants and nurtured ground

A place soaked by love found

Attention and care of a mother

Conversations for sure

But a wounded spirit better still

Vulgar words that heal

One place that is real

Most are ready not to receive

Nothing forced will be perceived

Only wind, water, and sun will allow it to grow

The perfect pleasure of being known

Respect for age for sure

But the art of life mediates pure

You only can take a little at a time

Surprise is the messenger of sublime