Tiny Thoughts

The other night I ran into a very old friend who makes his living as a painter. He started painting late in life, but probably due to his overall artistic side, became very good very fast. He's been painting for about eight years now. I asked him if he saw any difference in the past couple years. His reply was that he did not know, and he did not care. He is self-realized, and it makes no difference what and how he paints. I agreed that in the large scale all works of art are irrelevant, as when the sun runs out of energy, there will be no more Beatles records. But my question then turned to whether he noticed a difference in his work now that he is self-realized, and again he refused to answer. I guess I'll have to at his newer paintings.

But with that brief interchange, it kind of inspired to delete all my former posts, and start fresh. My overarching reason, I think, is because I'm changing direction. I thought about doing an advice-column blog, and maybe I'll do that. But in any event, I am going one notch down from the universal, to a bit more of a narrative blog, assuming that is within my capabilities. Although I do wish that blogs showed posts earliest to latest, and maybe they do, but I lack the motivation to figure that out, or to manually make my posts display in that fashion.