Re-encountered this poem today, and oh how it resonates. … so this is for us.This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the act of doing it.Not what it can lead to.This is forContinueContinue reading “Quiet Art”
Author Archives: Hezaasan
In Remembrance
Dad and I had the best talks. Both of us philosophical and at times brooding in nature, we would share our deepest thoughts and fears, and try to make some sense of it all. At our best, we’d come up with some pithy maxims. More often they were simply, observations — observations that we hopedContinueContinue reading “In Remembrance”
The Summer of Our Content
“In summer the song sings itself above the muffled words.”William Carlos Williams Seems like it makes sense to follow up my latest observational post about steering into bliss, kindness, and having fun with some photographic evidence of same. Five-star production of “Spring Awakening” at the Flint Rep Back in the director’s chair for a stagedContinueContinue reading “The Summer of Our Content”
Spring 2024 Observations
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – Georges Seurat I miss my dad. I miss him a little less when I do things that he loved to do with me. It’s like a mini-seance, when I do those things. Children are a mirror. Teenagers are a funhouse mirror. An object inContinueContinue reading “Spring 2024 Observations”
Muttering Retreat: Chicago
It’s one thing to know intellectually that a weekend getaway will do me good. It’s quite another to actually make that happen. Fortunately the stars aligned and I was able to spend a delightful couple of days with a woman who has been one of my very favorite traveling companions in the past — butContinueContinue reading “Muttering Retreat: Chicago”
Looking Up in Ohio
Cleveland Museum of Art It was high time I checked off another item on my Surround Myself with Beautiful Things in 2024 list. Easily one of the top ten best art museum experiences I can recall, despite its residence in one of my least favorite states in the U.S., the Cleveland Museum of Art isContinueContinue reading “Looking Up in Ohio”
Just Another Day At The Office
Little Caesar’s Arena, Detroit, MI Shot on Pixel 6 Pro, black and white filter.
A New Season
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room fullContinueContinue reading “A New Season”
And How Should I Presume
“Silence is a practice of emptying, of letting go. It is a process of hollowing ourselves out so we can open to what is emerging. Our work is to make ourselves receptive. The organ of receiving is the human heart, and it is here that we feel the deep ache of loss, the bittersweet remindersContinueContinue reading “And How Should I Presume”
No Place Like Home
Afternoon Delight cafe – Ann Arbor, MI It was one of those rare Michigan November days when the sky is blue, the air is crisp, and multi-colored leaves still cling to enough of the trees to make you believe you live inside of a postcard. It was also the day of my daughter’s campus tourContinueContinue reading “No Place Like Home”
Muttering Retreats 