#491 The Window (2)

This what we set out attempting
to do, the catching of a bird in
flight. So fast, so hard though.
Requires practice, patience, per-
sistence. Means starting in one
domain, which, if we fail with its
mode of manual dexterity, must,

then, move ahead to another, 
leaving some familiar forms be-
hind. Ironic, though, since many 
of those are classed as futuristic,
but the intention must be there to 
move forward, to invent the fu-
ture or re-invent it before our one

arrives. Observation: the painter
on the road, bowler-hatted but 
yet to become Mr. Everyman, 
still in the future. But the pre-
sent striding on toward the peaks 
& villages. & the past, Vincent 
van Gogh. The Road to Tarascon.