Work In Life
I felt the ABC, as illustrated non-fiction, can be developed a bit, out of care.
It was meaningful to explore forest paths; to talk about what’s there and who we are, return from that, and make picture stories of the adventure, and be relaxed.
'Abc Dadb' elements first gathered together, in the context of a verse writing class (Robert Morgan), drawing class (Zevi Blum), and oil painting class (Gillian Pederson-Krag), at Cornell, working at The Temple of Zeus Cafe, in Goldwin-Smith Hall. The start of it was coupling talk about summer with drawings of life in Ithaca, using watercolors and colored pencils too.
"Art is just another word for feeling." John Constable
Growing Up
I continued teaching, designed and built homes and interiors, reworking pictures and writing into the form of what they apparently were, to be, cooking. My own father loved tennis, cooking, and a useful book. The important part of life, has been staying at home with the kids, helping them with their projects, out of care, the kindness of that being the gift of time.
Art and writing were always around for that.
"To the land vaguely realizing westward,
But still unstoried, artless, unenhanced,
Such as she was, such as she would become."
Robert Frost, “The Gift Outright” from The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., renewed 1951, by Robert Frost.
