Sincerity

Tuesday February 25, 2025

Good morning, that wonderful place.

Hello. O/ Back again, I see.

You are getting wiser.

Good to see you and good for you.

Hope your day goes well.

On with our show.

"It feels right; I like to make sentences."

My personal reason for the work I do.

Of course there's the possibility to help another, to give them insight, to shine a light on a dark place in their life to better help them make sense of it.

Our work though, to be considered work, has to provide some result that helps further life.

Life isn't our heartbeat, isn't the steps in our feet. Life is living: Alive!

Life is experience and the expression of the experience.

Art helps us to better express our experience and so enrich our life.

Art gives us the opportunity to grow.

Without Art we're just materialistic stomachs, arms and legs looking to rub up and down against something to occupy us until we're hungry enough to eat again.

It's not intellectual, Art never is.

It's gratitude.

An artist shares an experience in a new way in hopes you'll share the experience from their expression.

The measure of Art is in its ability to affect us in the manner the artist desires.

If a Love song doesn't sound like love, it's about something else...

Like the need for the artist to examine their definition of Love, because if the music isn't sounding 'it' it ain't 'it.'

Clarity of expression is the most, and perhaps only, rule of Art.

Be Clear.

Every artist, musician, poet, author bumper sticker that to your laptop or guitar case.

Feel what you're creating while you create it.

A quick uplifting beach read needs to be wrote in a quick uplifting manner to be any good.

A Love song best be wrote from a place and sung from a place of Love, or the lie will lie in the lyrics and notes.

There is no greater tragedy in the whole world of Art than a disingenuous Love song.

Frankly, they're nauseating and serve neither the artist nor the audience.

Art never lies and so what the world hears is another's display of some lesser experience posing as Love for some personal false sense of importance or financial gain.

But there's nothing there but insincerity, the inability to be brave enough to clearly express yourself.

If it's not Love, it's something else.

Define something else, sing about that or it's just failed Art.

Some thoughts on sincerity and how best to do our work, live our lives.

Take care, be gracious and grateful and make a better day.