Martin's and Ardean's paintings
Watercolor can be like a splash of color-and-light. Not often, students can newly try it out with seemingly carefree brushstrokes and arrangement. Martin and Ardean have done so. Their colors waft in space, as do flowers in a field, don't they!
A wonderful book, The Wild Braid, has in its last poem, "The Round," these final lines:
the still-wet words I scribbled
on the blotted page:
"Light splashed . . ."
I can scarcely wait til tomorrow
when a new life begins for me,
as it does each day;
as it does each day.
(The first line of the poem is Light splashed this morning .)
Do find the book, find the poem; these lines are only slight enticement for much, in this poem and in the other poems to enjoy! The book is a collection of poems and reflections about poetry and gardening by Stanley Kunitz, a small, lovely book made at the end of his very long life.
The students who painted flowers in watercolor class with me are not very old; still, they are living in retirement: and from the long view they have reached because of age, gosh, they were able to see the splashes and so "scribble" and "blot" toward some small, lovely work. Ageless sparkles.
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