Julian Beever’s sidewalk chalk paintings are amazing. It’s completely crazy how he gets everything to be so perfectly proportionate especially considering how he has to stretch everything out so much. It must take him so long to finish them all—they’re all so detailed. It’s such a shame, however, that when it rains they all just wash away. Which made me start to think about how things are so impermanent (I know, very philosophical) in life. But then there are things like the Coliseum and the pyramids in Egypt that have been around for so long and will stay around long after we are gone.
And then there are things that aren’t concrete, like the hippie ideas that existed in the sixties and seventies, that come and go. But there are also non-concrete ideas like religion that have lasted for thousands upon thousands of years and will most likely stick around forever.
People are afraid of change, but it happens whether we like it or not. And some things stay the same whether we like it or not. There is always going to be war and strife, just like the Detroit Pistons can be really good one year and then the next year be really bad (obviously…ahem). There’s pretty much nothing we can do about it. So I guess if I were a philosopher I would say, go with the flow. Take each new challenge as it comes... which people hate hearing so I guess it’s a good thing I’m not a philosopher.