Saturday, July 9, 2011

Why Mess with Success?

Of the twenty-four beach balls floating in the pool, Eliska said, "They're boring!  Why don't they make them in new colors?"

"Because they're classic: they're perfect just as they are," I answered.

While she and her sister swam before the birthday party, I snapped the balls again, and again, and again, thinking I could capture the perfect Hockney image.

Crispness, clarity, seeming simplicity, directness.

Like Clue

Audrey Hepburn

Thoreau's "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer"

spectators 

graham crackers

and children with big questions.

Classic.

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