Jonathan, Joy & Kenne, Seattle Skyline (September 1, 2009) — Image directed by kenne
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.
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Same with anyone who’s been flying for years and loves it still we’re part of a world we deeply love. Just as musicians feel about scores and melodies, dancers about the steps and flow of music, so we’re one with the principle of flight, the magic of being aloft in the wind!
“Walking in Sallow Waters” — Computer Painting of a Western Sandpiper Along the Sea of Cortés Shoreline by kenne
Sandpiper
He flies only to scurry along another reach of surf where he pricks the cold for prey smaller than grains of prose. The freedom to guess right is his autobiography, and as oracle of the about-to-happen he prefers the edges of day, dawn and sunset, and rainy hours
that never climb to noon. He does not weary—his errands do not cease, and his flight is a diary snapped open, snapped shut, taking in no sweep of mountain. Master of the hidden, witness
to the nameless, feasting on careers even more unheralded than his own, he cocks his wings and darts with haphazard courage, his virtuoso pause obvious to everyone and secret.
Cardón Cactus in Shades of Blue (Guaymas, Sonora on the Sea of Cortez, January 24, 2016) — Image by kenne
“[…] it is a strange thing that most of the feeling we call religious, most of the mystical outcrying which is one of the most prized and used and desired reactions of our species, is really the understanding and the attempt to say that man is related to the whole thing, related inextricably to all reality, known and unknowable. This is a simple thing to say, but the profound feeling of it made a Jesus, a St. Augustine, a St. Francis, a Roger Bacon, a Charles Darwin, and an Einstein. Each of them in his own tempo and with his own voice discovered and reaffirmed with astonishment the knowledge that all things are one thing and that one thing is all things—plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and the spinning planets and an expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string of time. It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again.”
Our overnight stay on the way to Alamos for the 32nd Festival Alfonso Ortiz Tirado Music Festival was at the Playa de Cortes on the Sea of Cortes where we partied with our fellow travelers out of Tucson, Ronstadt Generations — Representing multi generations in North America, Ronstadt Generations continues the family’s musical traditions with Michael J. Ronstadt (younger brother of Linda) and his son Petie; a multi-instrumentalist and solid solo performers in his own right. They along with veteran musician, Alex Flores and present an exciting repertoire that preserves the traditional Southwestern and Mexican songs of their heritage with beautiful harmonies sung in English and Spanish. (I will be posting videos later.)
Partying In Guaymas, Sonora with Ronstadt Generations (January 24, 2016) — Images by kenne