Dear dear Mary - I so love your poetry, and you are on blazing form with this one. Your words are your dots, just as precisely placed, just as multi-hued, and likewise magicking into existence a bigger whole and a bigger sentiment.
It's exquisite.
Yet aside from its beauty, just for its own sake, in evoking "teal next to mulberry, and obsidian next to gold" and "evergreen pines (that) blaze tangerine and lemon" it frames anew a crie de coeur, a reminder so urgently and widely needed, to see the bigger picture.
I love the simplicity of the message. I have been thinking of this very much lately. Back it up to see the bigger picture. You brought it to us beautifully.♥
Nov 29, 2023·edited Nov 29, 2023Liked by Mary Poindexter McLaughlin
a fine "think" on our own human birds-eye view! but me-thinks it's more than a quirk of how we see--but ruther the ESSENCE! Them pointillists knew that our eyes an' brains, unaided by lenses (microsopic or even telescopic) / in their natural state--had no trouble sortin' out the representational from the abstracted sea of dots--the story from the spiny haystack of words. It's like finding "home" on a topographical map--but with yer eyes. Back 'fore the days of did-ya-tell? all newsprint wuz dot matrix... very much like pointillism--I wonder if we lost somethin' (apart from good journalism lol!) when dot-matrix printin' wuz abandoned? (kinda like the poor man's pointillism, no?)
This is so beautiful, Mary! I miss poetry in my life. You put this so succinctly in the two steps back. The first step is important, to see the patterns, but the second is key, to trust that the big picture will resolve--even if it hasn't yet, not having enough distance.
It's like that phrase socio-spirituality that one of my viewers gifted me with to describe what I'm trying to do: taking a hard look at the reality IN the world while questioning the reality OF the world. Thank you, I needed this this morning.
What a PERFECT metaphor for the ability (and effort required) to see the bigger picture, Mary!
Fabulous reminder that we are standing inside an immense mosaic. Thank you.
Dear dear Mary - I so love your poetry, and you are on blazing form with this one. Your words are your dots, just as precisely placed, just as multi-hued, and likewise magicking into existence a bigger whole and a bigger sentiment.
It's exquisite.
Yet aside from its beauty, just for its own sake, in evoking "teal next to mulberry, and obsidian next to gold" and "evergreen pines (that) blaze tangerine and lemon" it frames anew a crie de coeur, a reminder so urgently and widely needed, to see the bigger picture.
Bravo. Bravo.
Required Sunday reading!
I love the simplicity of the message. I have been thinking of this very much lately. Back it up to see the bigger picture. You brought it to us beautifully.♥
So beautiful!
a fine "think" on our own human birds-eye view! but me-thinks it's more than a quirk of how we see--but ruther the ESSENCE! Them pointillists knew that our eyes an' brains, unaided by lenses (microsopic or even telescopic) / in their natural state--had no trouble sortin' out the representational from the abstracted sea of dots--the story from the spiny haystack of words. It's like finding "home" on a topographical map--but with yer eyes. Back 'fore the days of did-ya-tell? all newsprint wuz dot matrix... very much like pointillism--I wonder if we lost somethin' (apart from good journalism lol!) when dot-matrix printin' wuz abandoned? (kinda like the poor man's pointillism, no?)
Just gorgeous. Thank you, Mary.
Exquisite, Mary! xoxo
I'm just saying it like it is. ;-)
This is so beautiful, Mary! I miss poetry in my life. You put this so succinctly in the two steps back. The first step is important, to see the patterns, but the second is key, to trust that the big picture will resolve--even if it hasn't yet, not having enough distance.
It's like that phrase socio-spirituality that one of my viewers gifted me with to describe what I'm trying to do: taking a hard look at the reality IN the world while questioning the reality OF the world. Thank you, I needed this this morning.
Visceral response, my body alive with sensation - thank you Mary!