new year's resolutions

last summer i spent a few wonderful days in the countryside in england, so exotic and so recognizable. i promised myself then that i would cease to believe all of the reasons to give up art, or to marginalize it, that i had soaked up over all of these years spent finding a way to survive. so very small are the things that i have managed to do since in order to achieve that, things done for that goal rather than having come from doing other things. here are some photos to remind me of that promise.

these photos were taken at avesbury, england. the tree above is really red in the middle of june. within a few hours, the rain was falling out of these clouds. but while the sun and wind held them off, they were a gorgeous backdrop for the stone circle in the field. what i felt was not a spiritual feeling, standing among them, but a warm human feeling. an expansion of the heart to simply respect the sincerity and hope that bound people together enough to bring a marvel into their world.