RORSCHACH REVISITED
For K.F.

Come. Look out our bay window! Since it has been snowing all night, the large Boxwood, right outside, is bowed down with big bunches of snow in animal-like shapes: A grand and interesting Rorschach Test!

Look Momma; there are polar bears in our great big Boxwood! Those are huddled together; but over there they are climbing up. Some are turning heads as they climb and two are nose to nose! And look at the sheep and all their lambs down there. Lambs Momma! Don’t you love snow?

“Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, “Hast thou entered the treasury of snow?” (Job 38:1, 22, NIV)

Oops! Too late now. Wind is stirring our large Boxwood and big clumps of snow are cascading downward. Where are the sheep and polar bears now? Only a few small lambs are left.

So it’s time to look well beyond: to that glorious Willow Oak with its many trunks and its colony of sky-reaching branches and twigs which, etched in black, are silhouetted against the snowy haze in its half round shape. Two large Pine Trees, flanking the Willow Oak, offer their contrasting greens in the moving gray haze.

The window! In yielding its beautiful framed winter composition it gives us only a fleeting composition for it is incapable of an artist’s interpretation by watercolors, oil painting or camera, since there is no human presence here with the desire, the training or the equipment to capture it and hang it in an art gallery!

So the window offers it to your “gallery”: your mind and senses (and mine as well). We are all painting it in words as best we can.

But then, in our lifetimes, are not we witnesses to countless landscapes, skyscapes, water scenes, mountain and cityscapes with their constantly changing visual compositions? Is not our Creator, The Almighty, also the Authentically Unique Artist?