Unfathomable Simple Complexities

I give them an interesting title. Absolutely I do. Both simple and complex. Dress them up. It’s a futile attempt at putting my true feelings down on paper.  I used to believe that my thoughts were so deep and original.

Haha, sometimes I wonder.

There is an argument today about whether true originality actually exists anymore or is all of today’s art (in all forms) merely copies of their predecessors? My take? Because there are still revolutionaries… still people who introduce radically new ideas in their respective fields, I believe that we have not reached our limits… and may never reach them.

My worst habit is probably that more often than not I compromise my feelings. Before they are “released” to society I dress them up.  Make them acceptable in the world’s eyes. It used to be where I would do this with not only my writing, but also with my artwork. Yet, if there’s one thing that art classes in college have taught me it’s that you are your biggest critic. All other audiences are less important.

Portrait

This a portrait of what I will do:

1. Build a brickwalkway

2. See the Foo Fighters in concert. (✓08) Meet Dave Grohl.

3. See my artwork in a gallery again (✓10)

4. Revisit Peru.(✓09) This time go to Machu Picchu.

5. Be a professor of Psychology

6. Make a mosaic coffee table (✓08)

7. Get Married ( ✓09)

8. Write a book that gains an ounce of popularity

9. Name my firstborn son Samuel Bethea Cann VI

10. Be a counselor

11. Smoke a cigar

12. Take a roadtrip

13. Sleep in a parking lot

14. Use a moleskine city notebook as a guide somewhere.

15. Find a girl at Anderson University. Get married, and forever have our alumni pages on file in the alumni office stapled together. (✓09)

16. Skinny dip

17. Go fishing in the dark

18. Become fluent in another language (Spanish✓) (✓10)

19. Beat my current record of 12 miles and run 13 miles without stopping.

20. Take a course in ceramics (✓09-10 )

21. Restore a classic car

22. Have a street or building named after me.

23. Create an online gallery of my artwork

24. Be a spectator at The World Cup

25. Pet a penguin

26. Join APA

27. Have the acoustic version of Foo Fighter’s “Everlong” played at my wedding (✓09)

28. Write a song with significance that gains an ounce of popularity.

29. Design my own house.

30. Be a spectator at the Super bowl, and EPL game, and soccer international friendly)