A New Day Has Dawn

In full bloom: seeking richness in each and every day

"Yesterday is gone. 

Tomorrow has not yet come.

We have only today. 

Let us begin."

                                      

                                                                           -- Mother Teresa

Seize the day means different things to different people: how one accomplishes it, or even defines it, is unique to each individual.  For me, it is captured in three succinct statements. 

              1.  Seek new horizons
 
              2.  Push boundaries
   
              3.  Create

These are my goals for the days that will unfold over the coming year.  I seek to breathe deeper, to look closer, and to enjoy more readily.  With this in mind, let's meet back here, say once a month, and slowly, the vivid tapestry that I believe 2014 will be, will unfurl.

See you in February.

 

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The Sound of Silence

In the stillness, icy drops cling to the needles' edge

On sabbatical since the end of October; to return in the new year with a fresh start.  See you then.

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Saturday, In the Park

The Big Bean

As autumn slowly unfolds and the trees dip themselves in gold and red, the desire to explore new places and new spaces takes hold.  Recently, it was Chicago's Millennium Park and The Art Institute of Chicago.  In the park, it is impossible not to be fascinated by Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate, a 110-ton elliptical sculpture of polished stainless steel, and the Frank Gehry-designed pavilion.  Highlights from the Art Institute include an Edouard Vuillard painting; a Van Gogh self-portrait; Georgia O'Keeffe's Sky Above Clouds IV painting from 1965, so perfectly presented on a staircase landing; two contemporary chairs, Honey-Pop Armchair by Takujin Yoshioka, and the pleated paper Cabbage Chair by Oki Sato that is shipped to the consumer as one compact roll to be open, cut and rolled back into shape upon installation (How cool is that?); a close-up of a must-see-to-believe Jackson Pollack drip painting; and the intensely beautiful stain glass window by Marc Chagall, one of three.  Finally, no weekend visit would be complete without a viewing of George Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. 

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Images by D. Sleziak