Let us create a concentrate out of scattered moments of beauty.

The sacred task of the human being as artist involves collecting those occurrences of beauty that are scattered like springtime flowers amongst the brown of the previous year's grasses, and then making a sort of concentrate out of them.  This concentrate - in the form of a painting, a piece of music, a sculpture, a photograph, a piece of writing, or even a simple recollection of those fragments of beauty - is then available to be dropped like a teabag into life's more mundane moments, allowing those moments to steep in them and to acquire their exquisite flavor.

Photo: Sky Pilot and Alpine Avens blooming in meadows that are freshly emerged from their wintertime covering of snow. Flat Tops Wilderness, CO; June 9, 2012