Cultures, societies, and entire civilizations endure loss.
History and art remain to delineate degrees of perceptivity that once were within reach of those willing to do the work necessary to attain them. None difficult, they are simply not effortless.
Existential concepts, Zen, mysticism, aesthetic elevation, Stoic equanimity, and direct awareness of objective reality are among these ways of being and living in the world.
History records and describes, art directs the mind and will. Both sustain, and sometimes restore.
The artist as composer observes the world, hears the possibilities, and works to reveal.
