stranger in a strange land*

'Cosmos' 20-24" chain, colored pencil, mica, paper, sterling silver;  Kathleen Faulkner

  

 2016 is coming to an end.

Soon it will be a new year

filled with uncertainties.

I distract myself with art and good sci-fi.

 

Earth is starting to feel claustrophobic.

The cosmos calls.

*'Stranger in a Strange Land'  Robert Heinlein

 

deep in it

'Northwest is Best'  16x20" oil pastel on panel;  Kathleen Faulkner

These are dark times.

I look out to the west

dark clouds have lifted over the Olympics

To the east, the North Cascades shine

  beneath the dark, brooding sky

 

  It brings to mind a line from a poem, as it often does,

and  'I am blinded by it's splendor'.*

*'What is the Beautiful'  Kenneth Patchen