Hardship

[M. C. Sears]

A silent room
and with each moment
a struggle within

~ acrylic on canvas, M.C.S.

[Zanelle]

Looks like something is about to blow.  I have the silent room struggle going on here too.  Why aren't I happy?

[M. C. Sears]

Dear Z, I'm sorry you're dealing with this stuff too. Sadly I'm asking myself that very question.

[JMac1949 Today]

Happy? Hmmm? Not sure that's the point of a silent room.  R&L ;-)

[Zanelle]

Right now there is a stupid weed eater going on and on across the street.  Those things should be banned.  I like the silence....I know what you mean Jmac about the point of a silent room....is it meditation?  peace?  lots of different words for happiness.  Foolish Monkey...you are always so WISE!!  Thanks for the inspiring words, MC

[Zanelle]

[Jerry DeNuccio]

Deliciously ambiguous: is the struggle in the room (as a physical space), in the moment (as a shard of time), or in the observer (as a perceiving being)?  Could it be all three?  Are they mutually entailed, one setting off the others. I've known many folks who turn on a TV or radio and leave it on all day, not to watch or listen, but to create a sort of white noise to drown out the silence.  For them, it seems, silence isn't golden, but swollen, with discomfort.

[Rosigami]

I particularly like the extremely narrow vertical of your painting. It palpably constricts space and heightens the discomfort you so expertly illustrate describe in so few words. 

[Arthur James]

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Thanks...

Annabella ( 11 )

ran up to my Home

yesterday with a Flower

Bouquet of Zinnias.

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I'll forever Cherish 

my Granddaughters

fast pace and Radiant

Aglow . . . of course?

She requested a fee?

She needs art paint,

and paper for future

artistic projects. I

look at Zinnias and

smile forever, and

still see Her carry 

the flower bouquet.

Such a glorious and

Facial 

[Arthur James]

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I may finish

comment

later?

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how Ya's

spell fish

if fish has 

no eyes?

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F S H.

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it go 

AWAY 

Time

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than

[James Mark Emmerling]

In the rooms wherein we struggle with the semantics of struggling,

rarely silent,

we learn to deal with the silence

outside in the real world

!