RESILIENCE ISN’T ALL by Richard E. Kravitz, MD
Images
“She is—in you.” (“Everything I Own”)
Charles O’Rear, Mom takes a picture of the kids with railroad personnel at the Wenatchee, Washington depot (1974)
Then, quite mechanically and more distinctly, the conversation began again inside him…
“What was it all for—her struggle?”
That was his despair wanting to go after her.
“You’re alive.”
“She’s not.”
“She is—in you.”
Suddenly he felt tired with the burden of it.
“You’ve got to keep alive for her sake,” said his will in him. Something felt sulky, as if it would not rouse.
“You’ve got to carry forward her living, and what she had done, go on with it.”
But he did not want to. He wanted to give up.
“But you can go on with your painting,” said the will in him…
—D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
Nobody else could ever know
The part of me that can’t let go…
Yes, I’m ready
cf. LIFE (1966)
Famous paintings as pulp fiction paperback books: The Swing
Dewar’s Profiles: Hamlet
Physics As Twentieth Century Art: Newton’s Law Of Universal Gravitation
The Persistence Of Apple
Shopping Lists Of The Great Authors: William Carlos Williams
It’s been much tougher to play pool since The Night Café switched to CFL bulbs…
“Las Meninas de Bob Ross” (A rare portrait painting episode of “The Joy of Painting”)
The Raft of the Medusa drifts straight into Washington Crossing the Delaware – a regrettable situation for both paintings.
“…a new failure — and I have had enough of it.”
Before leaving Saint-Rémy, he wrote to Émile Bernard:
“…And yet, once again I let myself go reaching for stars that are too big —
a new failure — and I have had enough of it.”
My Transcription of Allan Holdsworth’s Electric Guitar Solo on “In the Dead of Night”
John Sapiro 