From: John Cremati (johnjohnc@core.com)
Date: 06/10/03-05:40:38 AM Z
I thought this was a bueatiful thought from Ansel Adams...;;
"A strange thing happened to me today. I saw a big thundercloud move down
over Half Dome, and it was so big and clear and brilliant that it made me
see many things that were drifting around inside me. Things that relate to
those who are loved and those who are real friends. For the first time, I
know what love is, what friends are, and what art should be. Love is a
seeking for a way of life, a way that cannot be followed alone, a resonance
of all spiritual and physical things. Friendship is another form of love,
more passive perhaps, but full of the transmitting and acceptances of
things, like thunderclouds and grass and the clean granite of reality. Art
is both love and friendship and understanding, the desire to give. It is not
charity, which is the giving of things. It is more than kindness, which is
the giving of self. It is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning
out to the light of the awareness of the inner folds of the awareness of the
spirit. It is a recreation on another plane of the realities of the
world-the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men and of all the
interrelations of these."
Ansel Adams
Regards,
John Cremati
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