They called it a project, a Blues Project, but really,
it was a party — a party for
family and friends to share
happy times, talk about living life, and a love for good old blues music.
Once this party began there would be no stopping it, even when forced undercover
of rain, friends laugh and
talk about déjà vu the evening had become.
Just sitting on the front porch doing that front porch thing telling stories now embellished by all the good times dancing and singing the night away in the woods off Old Houston Road.
The Blues Project may be over so listen if the night will lead you to the music, the stories told and smile a smile one more time for each Project was just a rehearsal for what our tomorrows will bring.
— kenne
Kenneth Harris shares the story of how Ken & Mary’s Blues Project came about. (May 20, 2017)
Thou that hast giv’n so much to me, Give the thing more, a gratefull heart; See how Thy beggar works in Thee By art: He makes thy gifts occasion more And says, if he in this be crost, All Thou hast given him heretofore Is lost.
The cool wind blew in my face
and all at once I felt as if I had
shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line
with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manner of thine own Or of thine friend’s were. Each man’s death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind. Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.
In his book, The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics, Richard Rohr writes about third-eye seeing, which allows for a co-equal footing of the first eye (the physical sense of sight) and the second eye (the eye of thinking, reasoning and reflecting). The Mystics build upon the first two eyes by affirming their fundamental connection in such a way to avoid the simplistic symmetry of dualities. The resulting connection is what Rohr calls, “presence.”
“It is experienced as a moment of deep inner connection,
and it always pulls you, intensely satisfied,
into the naked and undefended now,
which can involve both profound joy
and profound sadness at the very same time,” Rohr writes.
By abandoning all false dichotomies, the captured moment can be viewed in the presence, which I have referred to as “the now” in earlier postings. The further we travel inward the more everything appears to merge into an inexpressible, but nevertheless real, sense of oneness with the world around us.
Hotel St. Michael Window (Prescott, Arizona) — Computer Painting by kenne
Computer Painting by kenne
Computer Art by kenne
Decatur Street, New Orleans — Computer Painting Reframed Ten Years Out
Computer Painting by kenne
“Sonoran Heat” — Computer Painting by kenne 
Dark Desert Grassland — Computer Painting by kenne
Humphreys Peak In Northern Arizona– Computer Painting by kenne
Sunset By The Wash — Computer Painting by kenne
Female Phainopepla — Computer Painting by kenne
“Man In Boat” — Computer Painting by kenne
Western Bluebird — Computer Painting by kenne
Self Portrait — Computer Painting by kenne
A Shadow Companion — Computer Painting by kenne
Computer Painting by kenne
