“With the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” ~ Plato
Thank you to all you wonderful, creative, and lovingkind people who have visited this space with your spirit during the last year. Your smallest act of carings remind me how much I love to collage and create. Truly, you have touched my heart and my heavens here in so many ways. So I dedicate this piece to you who have remained silent while here, and to you who have left your footprints and your sounds. Thank you for stopping by and for touching me with the greatest thing I will ever learn ~ just to love and be loved in return! Nature Boy…
There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy
And sad of eye
But very wise
Was he
And then one day
A magic day he came my way
And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings
This he said to me
“The greatest thing
You’ll ever learn
Is just to love
And be loved
In return”
“The greatest thing
You’ll ever learn
Is just to love
And be loved
In return”
[words and music by Eden Ahbez]
I wish I had the words to communicate the full meaning of the sigh that emerged on seeing/hearing/reading this piece. A sweet sense of homecoming? A heartfelt swell of gratitude?
It is we, your humble viewers/readers, who are touched by your generous sharing.
Thank you so much, Vaughan, for your beautiful words. They make time stand still!
Art says it so well! As does Nat King Cole.
Thanks for your loving way of arranging images, words, and music and for showing the power that streams from vulnerability. Thanks for you!
~lucy
Infinite gratitude to you, dear Lucy, for all your great act of carings. Infinite!
Oh, the memories this evoked….gave me chills – the song AND the artwork! xx
Nat King Cole brings back so many memories for me too! Growing up every Sunday morning my father use to play his songs. When I think of orange, I still think of his ‘Orange Colored Sky.’ And I made a piece once inspired by his song Mona Lisa. Thanks, Kate, for this Cole memory moment…and for you being here!