If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
—Frederick Douglass
Narrative of His Life, 1845
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We humans are an imaginative lot. When the first light breezes of any sort of change comes rustling through our leaves, our imaginations go into high gear, filling our minds with images of worst possible scenarios. So we brace ourselves and struggle against the wind as it becomes stronger and stronger. Some of us topple over and some lose all our leaves as the wind’s intensity continues to grow.
But some of us set aside our fears and adjust to the wind. We give a bit and relax, finding a comfortable position to endure the wind and trusting that our roots will hold us fast.
We adjust and find that we stand as easily in the new day as we did in the days before.
Change is an inevitable force of nature. It is our adjustments to these tides of change that determine whether we fall or stand, fail or prosper.
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That’s just one reading for the new painting at the top which is titled, of course, Tides of Change. This 12″ by 36″ canvas will be at the Kada Gallery in Erie for the Gallery Talk there that takes place at 1 PM this Saturday, April 11. The talk and the drawing to win one of my paintings is open to all. So if you have a different take on this painting and want to share it, come down to the Kada Gallery on Saturday and we’ll talk.
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