“The Sky is the Daily Bread Of The Eyes.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
This one hit me because of how truly gorgeous the Oklahoma sky is. I remember after we moved here and someone asked me what I thought of Oklahoma compared to California, where I had lived before. They assumed I would think that the land, the environment, was boring here. I told them, that yes, California has the more interesting landscape for the most part, the California sky was incredibly boring compared to Oklahoma’s.
Virtually every day the sky gives something beautiful to look at and experience: clouds, winds, rain, sunsets/sunrises, sun, storms, hail, lightning, thunder. It is almost never the same two days in a row.
“The years teach much which the days never know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like imagining that years, days, hours, are all conscious entities teaching us. I know it isn’t true, but I like the creative idea. What I do know is as we pass through years and other time eras, decades even, it’s as if we go through an assembly line. Not in the sense that we all turn out the same, but in the sense that we all go through similar moments, similar events as we travel through time. what is finally assembled is unique to each of us, it is not decided by the process or event as much as it is decided by our reaction to them.
The older I get the more I realize this is true. Great art is not something done in a tub of luke warm water, it’s done with the passion and focus of the bees.
What do you think it takes to create great art?
“The artists, like the bees, must put their lives into the sting they give.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
