Even as a kid… all my life, I have been a Thinker.
Most everyone can pull up the image in their mind, but if you can’t, search it.
Rodin’s Thinker.
Rodin’s Thinker, more flab, no chisel, but yes, yup, basically that’s me.
Rodin’s Thinker, that guy, he sure does look like fun, right? I must have been a fun kid. I must have been a riot to hang with. Laugh a minute. Life of the party.
Honestly, really I was a - sit in the back of the classroom, watch, obsess, think and think some more kind of kid. That was my life. That was young me.
But really, honestly, being a Thinker, led me to become a Dreamer. I like Dreamers. I like dreams. Dreaming, dreamers - good. Many good things, so many good things, good things begin - with - a dream.
Search - “Pablo Picasso: The Dream”
Or, try this one. This one is easier to pull from memory, imagine yourself lying on a chaise lounge, in the middle of a - Vincent Van Gogh: Starry Night.
How dreamy is that?
That would be heaven (on earth) right?
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Thinking, dreaming, imagination, it can be lonely, and - it can be heaven. It can be heaven on earth.
And, now, as then, thinking, dreaming, I would (I do) imagine - a heaven on earth. Peace among men. (Silly Dreamer)
And today, here, now, I sit and I think,
I think about Truth.
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Sadly I think Truth might have somehow become overvalued, misunderstood, sullied? Truth got lost? Truth, did it take the wrong turn on the way to Albuquerque?
Where did Truth go?
Honey, where did you put Truth? I can’t find it.
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Truth? How can one imagine the concept as art?
Truth. Is there a famous Truth painting or sculpture?
Nope. Nada. Nothing came to my think, thought, dream mind.
But don’t let that stop you. Today, when we come up empty, all we have to do is - search.
Search I did. Truth. So, check this one out.
La Verite sortant du puits armee de son martinet pour chatier l’humanite.
(Translation: Truth Coming from the Well Armed with Her Whip to Chastise Man)
A work by one Jean-Leon Gerome, 1896.
Check it out.
And don’t you - “MeToo” me.
It’s not my creation. It didn’t come from my head, even though it is locked in there now. Stuck.
Daddy Like. Daddy like Truth. Truth good.
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Thinking, Dreams, Truth - that’s all I got for today.
No conclusions. Just good ingredients. Start with good stuff. Mix good stuff up.
Try different combinations. See what you get.
Thinking, Dreams, Truth.