Miscellaneous musings...

"Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events." ~Thomas Lynch

In this earthly experience, these four are probably the most common, and most influential, themes expressed. Think of the songs you've heard, or books you've read. Movies, TV shows, plays, even stand up comedy, all revolve around these things.

In fact, I submit the question,"Is anything else worth writing about?" I love to read biographies and non-fiction books. I'm also a big poetry fan, although these past few years have seen my reading in all areas drop off considerably.

The last few books I've read are posted on my LinkedIn page: The Unlikely Disciple, Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos, Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting, White Peonies and Cezanne's Composition. Despite the titles, as one reads these, it becomes apparent that, even in a book on fractal geometry, discussions on these themes arise. Of course, books on art will contain these in both pictoral and textual forms.

It's a strange thing, to narrow the existence down to just four subjects. Especially in a time when we seem to be pushing so hard to make material things the priority.