Consuming Time and Space
In our contemporary age, we are all connected electronically. We can communicate instantly across town, across the globe, which begs the terribly (to some of us) important question, “What do we have that is truly worth communicating about?”
Much "supposed" communication consumes time and space, meaninglessly.
“Just fed the cat her favorite, tuna.”
“My shoelace just broke.”
“Can’t find any shoelaces in the closet.”
“Decided to go with the old galoshes.”
“Taking the dog to the park for a run.”
“Thinking about what to have for dinner.”
“Dinner in or dinner out? Could do either.”
Nonstop reportage about thirty minutes out of a mundane afternoon?? To my ear and eye, a catalog of the excruciating minutiae of everyday life. I would share some of this . . . with my lover, my husband, maybe my children.
Not with 127 close FaceBook friends or the 376 subscribers to my blog, and certainly not with the 700+ people who receive my Twitter feed. (Don’t be silly. Of course I don’t have a Twitter Feed. Real life is too short.)
One does not have to be anti-technology or anti-modern to question the immense flood of information with which we inundate ourselves, our friends, our children, our colleagues. And we need to be honest with ourselves about this --- it is information, not communication. Many of us no longer understand what communication is, what it consists of, how it is conducted, what it can accomplish. Knowing this leaves me tired and sad, disconsolate.
- Polish Sculptor in America
My paternal grandfather, Edmund K. Ast, trained as a sculptor in Poland and immigrated to America after World War II, where he continued to design and carve gravestones, memorials, busts, and statues for a variety of Georgia clients. He was comfortab - Unique Painting Style - Iconoclastic Artist -Wanda M...
Wanda Maria Ast emigrated from Poland in 1951 and settled in Georgia. There she raised her four children. As soon as she felt she had a good command of the English language she began writing poetry. In her sixties and seventies she began painting in
