Someday We’ll Find It
The Sweet Sound that Calls
Every once in a while we are able to step outside the shade and into the light. I enjoy seeing little suggestions turned by creative minds into joy and laughter. Two recent ideas have proven popular and with each day in the shade I continue to try and cast a little email of light. The results are spectacular. Racecourses are built, rocks are found. There is building, there is painting…the reward – perhaps a picture or two, a video of glee.
Since this shade has arrived, I have found words to help with the light. Sometimes the ideas come quickly…at other times it is a struggle. As I turn the virtual pages of historic tomes, card files and indices, in search of breathe in tumultuous times, it can become overwhelming. Amongst these pages there is a proliferation of tragic tales…and so at times I will search for ideas outside my usual genre. Late one evening, last night in fact, I turn to virtual auditions…someday we’ll find it…the sweet sound that calls.
There is an idea, though the brew percolates…it takes time to build flavour…first Willie, then Alison, then others. Still after several worthy deliveries I turn to the original – close – but is it possible there can be something more? And yes there is. Now with the right spirit, I become disparate for connections. I grab at thoughts – seemingly arbitrary and then – by harnessing these chirping calls my craft begins. Building on ideas that are perhaps best known to persons best familiar with one and other…I sit within the stillness…question and deviate and return…it is the craft (the light) that counts…maybe some chirping for my reader’s shade will conjure ink from their pens?
Each day – each evening I chatter with Rosemary providing her with thoughts for her now online youngsters (students). Marble races and rock monsters…laughter and joy. But so too within our virtual connection there is the shade of alonenessness. In helping Rosemary, she helps me…she encourages this mind to bring thoughts together that though perhaps here and there…are my racecourses, my rock monsters…she knows this mind…she knows my experience.
Today there is light…an unlikely connection of a July rainbow (that she will understand) and a marsh (because in its unobviousness it is obvious to her)…its not our usual history here…but Rosemary will recognize…light is more fun than the shade…the sweet sound that calls.
For Rosemary
The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me
Bringing Light to Us All
The Rainbow Connection
From The Muppet Movie (1979)
My Grateful and Special Thanks
to
Kermit the Frog
Jim Henson
Paul Williams
Kenneth Ascher
Matt Vogel
Disney Magic Moments
This was needed at this time. An inspiration and a love for life that is brought about in the simplest of things like rainbows, marbles and rocks. Thank you for belief, for images and for the words to make us all lovers and dreamers once again.