An extraordinary opportunity to travel to Center City Philadelphia this weekend made it possible to fulfill a longtime wish from my younger days to view in person some of the actual original works of Winslow Homer. As a much younger man, full of optimism and the creative spirit, I had thought to become an artist … Continue reading American Watercolor Exhibit
Winter has finally begun to lose its grasp on the world around me, and as it wanes, I find myself in a fairly predictable state of mind for this time of year. It generally feels like a sort of aching melancholy or some leftover winter suppression or vagueness in my personal emotional experience of life, … Continue reading Knowledge and Emotion
“Quantum mechanics is the best theory we have for describing the world at the nuts-and-bolts level of atoms and subatomic particles. Perhaps the most renowned of its mysteries is the fact that the outcome of a quantum experiment can change depending on whether or not we choose to measure some property of the particles involved.” … Continue reading Shen Yun–Ancient Chinese Wisdom and Quantum Physics
I can feel you. I know you are there. I want you to be there. I think that's the reason it keeps happening. At some point, we both reflect on those moments, and it brings us somehow together. Your face said everything. Just for a moment, it all came rushing back to you--all those moments--they … Continue reading Forever One – A Reverie
From the June 1962 cover of National Geographic Please have a look at this blogpost I wrote a while back about this amazing American...May he rest in peace.... February 20th marked the 50th anniversary of the day astronaut John Glenn orbited of Earth. He was one of NASA's original Mercury astronauts, depicted in the recent … Continue reading The Inner Reaches began in Outer Space
Title: Self Awareness: Size: 21.5” x 30.5”x 1.75": Media: acrylic, oil, collage & assemblage: Surface: canvas over masonite & board with wooden framework: copyright 2009 Lisa L. Cyr, Cyr Studio LLC, http://www.cyrstudio.com "The only right and legitimate way to (a mystical) experience is that it happens to you in reality and it can only happen … Continue reading Inner Worlds Within Worlds – Redux
The air is bitter cold. The distance between warmth and cold confusion is brief, And only marginally tolerable; The wind stings my cheeks As I make my way to you. I would face a thousand stings To arrive at your door. The door swings wide. As I … Continue reading Reverie
Contemplating David Gelernter's new book, "The Tides of Mind," for weeks now hasn't helped me much with my own "struggles of mind," but it has opened new avenues of thought, which is always a welcome development. In particular, his imagery of a "spectrum of consciousness," with descending and ascending layers from being wide awake and … Continue reading Tides of Mind
"If we seek genuine psychological understanding of the human being of our own time, we must know his spiritual history absolutely. We cannot reduce him to mere biological data, since he is not by nature merely biological, but is a product also of spiritual presuppositions." - -Carl Jung from a presentation at the C. G. … Continue reading Body, Mind, Spirit
"Everything remembered is dear, touching, precious....at least the past is safe, though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now, because we have survived." --Susan Sontag, Partisan Review Winter 1967 "Daydreaming is good for you. It fosters creativity, happiness and mental health...Daydreaming, letting your wishes and instincts play out, is so important … Continue reading Daydreams and Intuition
John's Consciousness 