Not with a bang…
Got to work today to be greeted by a cordoned off Times Square, due to a mysterious van that had been parked there for a couple of days. Police were ushering people away, but providing no information. It was only hours later that I found out through CNN what had happened.
I also found out today that one of my favorite artists, David Levine has died. I had a book of his caricatures early on in the seventies, and remember drawing a self portrait in what I thought was his style when I was 14 or so. He wielded a crowquill like nobody else, and was a devoted Brooklynite to the end.
Yesterday also brought two conversations where I was encouraged to think of myself in new ways. In both of them I came up against the idea that no one believes my self-deprecating patter as much as I do.After many years of working on it, I’m still ready to pick out the worst of myself as the only truth. It feels like the pointlessness of this behavior is being pressed on me by circumstances so that I can finally do something to break free of it.
So often work blockages come as a way of avoiding a confrontation with one’s real power. I’m seeing the way that organizations can stay stuck in talking about problems that they have in essence grown past becuase that allows them the comfort of the known. The same is true for me.
Tags: daily photo, death, new york in black and white, self examination