November 11, 2022 Weekly Musings

Christine Alfery

Posted on November 11 2022

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Her Gypsy Spirit Receives Award

"Gypsy" has received the PWCS Award for Use of Color at the Philadelphia Water Color Society’s 122nd Anniversary International Exhibition of Works on Paper in West Chester, PA.

Musings:

Discrimination

Featured image: The Strings We Attach To Things

a word used a lot lately …

I have never under-

stood how it works. For if one

is discriminat-

ed against – that always

leaves the “other” and then isn’t

the “other” being

discriminated

against.

Are you tall, short, fat, thin, yellow, green, white, black, orange or purple? There will always be something different from you. Well, I hope so anyway. Otherwise, you will just be a clone or a copycat. For example, I am short, and old. I had red hair. I have been labeled and called many times not very smart. I have been called outspoken and been silenced through force. Of course, I am discriminated against, of course absolutely – because I am like no other. I am different and I like it that way.

Caw Caw

Featured image: Black Bird

The wind this morning

Hushed the delicate bird

Song black birds caw caw

Sky fades from black purple

Soft blue melts into golden

Yellow, oranges, sunrise

Chorus rehearsing

Warming up new day begins

Cello song wind strings

Inner Compass

Featured image: Inner Compass

I think reason is important for the formation of a community. However, reason isn't the all-important end all of questioning and should never be absolute.It should never exclude the imaginary and wonder of the self which is always filled with possibility.

Follow your inner compass - feed your inner soul - always allow yourself to imagine and wonder.

Transcendent

Featured image: Patchwork Landscape

Transcendent – Beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience. Existing apart from and not subject to the limitations of the material universe.

Is a soul or spirit transcendent? If so, how can it be imagined? For me the soul, the spirit is something that is a loosely woven tapestry made of fabric, a weaving that has a lot of gaps. A weaving of the transcendent is not stable. It is unstructured. I imagine a weaving of clouds moving with the changing wind- not stable, sometimes transparent and sometimes opaque. So yes, I believe the soul or spirit is transcendent.

Is this kind of transcendent divine like many famous philosophies claim,such as Kant, Plato and writers like Emerson and Thoreau? I don’t see it that way. I don’t know why, because their transcendence is based on the idea that romanticism is better than rationalism. I do like their idea of transcendent being grounded in nature – but this nature needs to be divine.

How do I imagine the transcendent? Imagine a haze surrounding yourself, something like a sun dog surrounds the sun because that implies a glow – a light. I like that imaginary and the weaving of the sun dog with the clouds. Great tapestry – the soul and spirit of the transcendent – honestly – it is the imagined.