Sprawl . . .

Sit, lie or fall
With one's legs and arms spread's
The definition of sprawl
But that's not what I said
When a city has sprawl,
Something hard to comprehend,
You can't see a beginning
It spreads out to no end



It's Complicated
©2017 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Complexity . . .

Childhood is so gloriously simple, for those fortunate enough to have caring, loving and providing parent(s). I was fortunate. I can still recapture, or should I say remember, that carefree feeling that was my life for, what now in reality was, a few short years. There is no deep-seated desire to return to those times.  They were wonderful for what they were. . . a beginning.  An introduction. A primer. I recall a time when I perceived all adults to be 'wise' (for lack of a better word) simply by virtue of their years.  And rightly, thanks to Mom and Dad, accorded them the proper respect that adults were due as a result. I'm not certain when, but at one point, most probably shortly after entering school, I realized that things would not remain as easy going as in the past. The status quo was about to be shaken.  There would soon be additional responsibilities, or complications, in my simple, carefree life. Again, rightly so. Now, in addition to having to decide in which direction I would ride my bike, whether I wanted grape or cherry-flavored bubblegum and what television program I would watch upon my arrival home, I had to integrate several hours of school, some homework, new friends and a social component to which I was quite simply not accustomed. 

It's Complicated
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Sculpture . . .

. . . and those to sculpt it. . .

So who knew Michaelangelo was such a complicated person?  Certainly not me.

(from http://www.michelangelo-gallery.org/biography.html)
". . . Michelangelo, who was often arrogant with others and constantly dissatisfied with himself, saw art as originating from inner inspiration and from culture. In contradiction to the ideas of his rival, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo saw nature as an enemy that had to be overcome. The figures that he created are forceful and dynamic; each in its own space apart from the outside world. For Michelangelo, the job of the sculptor was to free the forms that were already inside the stone. He believed that every stone had a sculpture within it, and that the work of sculpting was simply a matter of chipping away all that was not a part of the statue. . ."



Paleolithic Goddess Figurine
by OHO, Jay Graboski, David Reeve and Ray Jozwiak, Bratt Productions Studio by Bill Pratt mix





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Raccoon. . .

 

(from "Life Among the Lutherans" by Garrison Keillor)

". . . In Lake Wobegon, you learned about being All Right.  Life is complicated, so think small.  You can't live life in raging torrents, you have to take it one day at a time.  And if you need drama, read Dickens.  My dad said, "You can't plant corn and date women at the same time.  It doesn't work."  One thing at a time.  The lust for world domination does not make for the good life.  It's the life of the raccoon, a swashbuckling animal who goes screaming into battle one spring night, races around, wins a mate, carries on a heroic raccoon career, only to be driven from the creek bed the next spring by a young stud who leaves teeth marks in you butt and takes away your girlfriend, and you lie wounded and weeping in the ditch.  Later that night, you crawl out of the sumac and hurl yourself into the path of oncoming headlights.  Your gruesome carcass lies on the hot asphalt to be picked at by crows.  Nobody misses you much.  Your babies grow up and do the same thing.  Nothing is learned.  This is a life for bank robbers.  It is not a life for sensible people. . . "

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