Comments on: Night Vision https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/ Creative Coach, Editor, Instructor, Mentor & Muse Sat, 08 May 2021 22:11:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: vickeykall https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1023 Sun, 26 Jan 2014 00:59:52 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1023 Irving Berlin was another nightowl. He even wrote a song called "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning!" which he loved to sing onstage.
Las Vegas, NV used to keep city offices opened through the night to accommodate its citizens–don't know if they still do. Very civilized of them.

]]> By: Katherine https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1022 Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:30:02 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1022 You are quite right. After your eyes adjust, the darkness is more calm and peaceful.

]]> By: Carolyn Griffin https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1021 Sun, 22 Dec 2013 03:01:51 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1021 Thank you for such compelling insight into the (and your) nocturnally romantic world. Wishing you all the best as we head into 2014.

]]> By: Kathy leber https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1020 Sat, 21 Dec 2013 20:35:00 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1020 As usual, your words hypnotize and make me understand why the night has always been more compelling than the bleached and tawdry light of the noonday sun. Only for mad dogs and Englishman…..
I look forward to what 2014's nocturnal musings from Martha will offer us. But whatever it is, it will be a midnight feast!
Kathy Leber

]]> By: Jackie Nach https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1019 Sat, 21 Dec 2013 18:46:56 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1019 Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They did not listen, They did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left insight
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as
beautiful as you

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frame less heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They did not listen they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will
DON McCLEAN

]]> By: Jackie Nach https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1018 Sat, 21 Dec 2013 18:42:06 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1018 YEP!

]]> By: patricia https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1017 Sat, 21 Dec 2013 13:18:33 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1017 The night time is palpable amongst the orange groves in my current abode. Peaceful, starfull and most of all tranquil …. with the smell of ripening oranges – where else to be for Christmas … twinkle twinkle little star….

]]> By: Doug Bradley https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1016 Sat, 21 Dec 2013 11:36:11 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1016 Lovely lyric about the moon, but Michael Ondaatje had the wisdom to crib from good sources. Frank Sinatra and Billie Holiday, among others, have both sung the old standard, “I'll Be Seeing You," which came from a 1938 Tin Pan Alley musical but rose to its own in WWII when hundreds of thousands serving overseas felt the truth in its lines and reused it for their sweethearts.

And lovely lines from you, Martha, on this day of the longest night, when festivals of light and lightness remind us that this winter darkness shall end and summer too will return.

Thanks for the blessings!

]]> By: Kate Hewell https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1015 Sat, 21 Dec 2013 04:40:14 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1015 Martha,
You are a true master with words. Beautiful blog.
Cheers,
Kate

]]> By: Michael G. https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1014 Sat, 21 Dec 2013 04:16:28 +0000 https://dev.marthasmuse.com/2013/12/20/night-vision/#comment-1014 "When darkness falls, gentler more natural rhythms settle in and the limitations of rational thought succumb to the nuances of the night… In the prisms of moonlight and starlight, we are free to ask the larger questions."

As an artist who somehow became a daytime practitioner after college, the beauty of your language makes a compelling case for a return to the darkside.

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