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Thirteen Ways of Looking at Completion Completion is better than certainty— certainty comes around to being uncertain, completion comes around and around Seconds turning to minutes to hours— three hands moving along on the clock as day turns to night and night to day. Children love the circus, ferris wheel, and carousel— not knowing why riding horses on the Merry-Go-Round. The point, the line, the surface, and sphere in the seed, stem, leaf, and fruit appear— Geometry lesson from Mother Nature! I expand the arc of my compass drawing ever widening circles like ripples of water in the pond. Can't believe they cropped Chikanobu's Magic Lantern— bubbles can't be truncated otherwise her dream will not be complete! My favorite quote from Santayana— “If I see a circle half-drawn, I yearn to complete it.” Before they died, Dante finished his Commedia and Goethe his Faust— seeing their life's work to completion. Day and Night of Brahma— universe manifest and unmanifest, only its waking and sleep cycles are longer. Buddha turning the Wheel of Dharma, Einstein in his wisdom mudra pose— both teaching the path to Enlightenment. The Eye is the first circle— seeing the beauty of this world from Mind that is complete and whole. Is the Zodiac a Cosmic Clock? our Sun taking its planetary children for a joy ride through the constellations. If you're tired doing the same thing over and over, just ask the Earth why it's not tired revolving the Sun— going around and around — Peter Y. Chou Mountain View, 10-24-2009 |
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Palo Alto Weekly, August 7, 2009 with Chikanobu's "dream bubble" cropped .jpg)
Yoshu Chikanobu (1838-1912) Magic Lantern: Foreign Travel (1890) |