Logically, this should have something to do with my post — but it doesn’t. It’s simply my latest watercolor, which I was doing as a workbook exercise.
“Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be, but as it isn’t. It ain’t. That’s logic.” – Lewis Carroll
A Page from My Journals
July 14, 1996, “At one time in my life, I sought logic in everything. Now I know better.” – Pat Bean
And this is simply a quick sketch I did of a great blue heron. I think I gave the bird an attitude. Is that logical?
I collect quotes, 99 percent of them from people who better put into words my own thoughts. Occasionally, however, I surprise myself and find the exact words to perfectly express what I think. Like the one I recorded in my journal, and which I’m sure came to me in a flash of insight because of something in my then life.
I kind of stole the last half of the quote from Maya Angelou, who is quoted many times in my journals. “When you know better, you do better,” she wrote. This thought always soothed me when I thought of the many mistakes I had made my life.
But to get back to the matter of logic, and my own words. I was already in my 50s, when I wrote the quote in my book on that 1996 summer day. It stands alone as the only words I wrote for this date. And as I reread it this morning, my first thought was how come it took me so long to reach such a painfully clear conclusion,.
The next thought had me wondering, what was the event that prompted me to come to that conclusion.
The answer to the first is easy. I truly am a very late bloomer – even though I precede the baby boomers.
I have no answer for the second, but I suspect I’m going to lose a few hours of sleep for the next few days pondering the answer, which will probably still elude me.
And that’s not logical at all.
Bean Pat: To be or not to be. https://interestingliterature.com/2018/11/03/a-short-analysis-of-shakespeares-to-be-or-not-to-be-soliloquy-from-hamlet/ I found this to be quite interesting, especially since I was thinking about popular quotes when I read it.
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Pat Bean is a Lonely Planet Community Pathfinder. Her book, Travels with Maggie, is now up on Amazon at http://tinyurl.com/y8z7553y Currently, she is writing a book, she is calling Bird Droppings, which is about her late-bloomer birding adventures. You can contact her at patbean@msn.com
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I love that watercolour of yours!
Delighted you included your painting and sketch. They are lovely.
You are very wise and I love the words and the watercolor. Thanks for sharing.
Your watercolour is stunning! I still haven’t grasped that negative-painting technique, but I keep trying.
We used to enjoy watching the heron that stalked the ocean shallows near our temporary apartment a couple of years ago. If we approached too closely, he’d give us a disgusted look and fly off shouting, “GRAWK, GRAWK, GRAWK” just like a crabby old man cussing us out. Your heron looks as though he has the same attitude!