~~Last week of 2009~~
It was the sunsetting on my 29 th year that I found myself with my thoughts , on the windy piers of Manhattans West Side. They were dilapidated and relics of a very busy New York Harbor reflective of the grand days of Ocean liners., so many lives have since touched down and set off to there own destinations. Ive remained looking at a river with no piers embracing all of us who remain .It is this very moment in our lives that I embrace , please except this token of my respect for all who read this and my hopes for the best a new year must bring us all.
It now is now the last week of this 2009 and some 25 years have passed. A friend once said that there is a thin line between the past and the present, I find myself wanting the past to be reborn and my present to reflect the ideas of this idealistic Marble Faun.
Let the years count, this new years project are ones that will with the guidance I have always sough from a source greater then myself,once again I stand at the windy crossroads of a setting sun.
~~Prospect~~
Happy New Year to you Jerry!Hope you and yours are having a good one.How are you going to celebrate,I know you’re cooking something good.Did you get to spend one with the Edies?This is going to be a good year with your new website and book and wonderful things coming to life from your stones.Best wishes and blessings to you.Pattie
~~Happy New Year Pattie~~
On one New Years Eve we celebrated each other company with some gimlets ,we still had our liitle Christmas tree sitting on top of the dresser. It was just the very top of an evergreen growing on the property.
This new year Ive so many ideas that I will set free .
In the fall of last year I collected various stones , they are in the stone room, waiting to be carved.
Please extend my best wishes to your entire family ,
A blessed New Year 2010,
thank you for your friendship,
Jerry
Jerry,
I live in a small town in Fl, and moved here at the age of 15. I moved away, and then moved back. I find little lines that remind me of good times, crazy times, and unhappy times. The classic movie “The Time Machine” reminds me of what time creates. It gives me a sad feeling of love that is deep down inside. A knowing that it served it purpose, but sad because it is gone. Leaving me with so many memories. Little Edie was so deep and loved how she said that.
Love and Light
Donna
Hi Donna
A very Happy New Year to you my friend!
My thoughts are that along our way in our lives we are drawn into reflecting into our past, unlike other times when the present is all that concerns us.
It is looking down the road less traveled and the road that has led us to this very moment.Ive been reliving my past with just about the same
sentiment that our Edie had at just around the same age.
So we find oursleves a bit wiser & with the grace of God a bit kinder.
please stay near this~ New Year
yours
Jerry
Jerry~
That thin line is what keeps us grounded, both in the past and the now.. It is always poignant to reflect back at our experiences, especially when the remembrances are of prolific relationships we have had the honour to share and experience.. Your life has led you down many roads my friend, one being the Beales and Grey Gardens, which I am so grateful to be able to come along with you in your innate ability to describe with such heartfelt storytelling… I thank-you for that!! I look forward to more memories Jerry!!
Happy New Year!!!
Tina
Good Monday Morning ~Tina~ This being the last week of our year I’ve set before me a list of my goals for 2010. Ive visions for my sculpture which demand patients and need to be freed from there stone captivity. This written work which is a personal account of my travels and those who along the way have embraced my life. The other goals set before me are routine and just need to be maintained,may the goals you may set before you be reached and bring you happiness.
It is my duty to be a friend to you dear Tina, I like the responsibility a great deal. forvever friends Jerry
‘It’s very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present’ … a famous Little Edie line that becomes more meaningful with each passing year!
Here’s hoping 2010 is the best year of your life, Jerry…
Morning Michael
Watching that scene from the doc, takes me back to very winds, bright skies and tender reflections of a Fauns summer.
That memory has been the most wonderful of many.
with my fondest regards to you Michael,
A very best New Year 2010 to you my friend!
Jerry
It is so true there is a very fine line between the past and the present it is almost haunting. I can feel the presence of those who have moved on from this life they have many messages to convey to me only if I am willing to listen. Usually this time of the year I end up at the Nelson Museum Of Fine Art, as I walk through the museum I can feel and sometimes hear the stories of times gone by. Yes, the veil is very thin this time of the year. There is also a potpourri energy that is so strong I almost want to just stay in doors. I am not a fan of Christmas or New Years but I am called to focus on this very interesting feel of energy of the past and present and to listen to it’s messages for healing and growth.
Greetings Denise
I find myself and have for years imagine the spirits who carved stone into statements reflecting the days in which they lived.
My thoughts are that these souls were making there mark to preseve the civilisation in which they were part .
In the smallest of detail on the simpliest of works there was a message., a mark in clay , a figure in stone.How ageless is a symbol of tenderness.
It belongs to the ages .
These days are ours ,yet our time is fleeting.
Make your mark !
always here for you
Jerry
I know that everyone has a different taste and what is lovely to one person is virtually nothing to another. But these latest posts of yours are nothing short of haunting to me. The imagery that you call to mind is so vivid and real.
I can only imagine the feeling of wonder and almost supernatural awe that you must have felt pondering the various people of years gone by sailing on their own adventures from that pier. Were they rich? Were they happy? Where were they going? Would they ever return? Does anyone even remember them?
And then to personalize it, AM I HAPPY? WHERE AM I GOING? WILL I EVER RETURN? DOES ANYONE EVEN CARE????? Jerry its so bitter and yet sweet at the same time. Kind of the way you feel AFTER you have had a long long cry.
It immediately put me in mind of a verse from a song written in the 1700’s
“On Jordans Stormy Banks I stand
And cast a wishful eye
To Canaans Fair and Happy Land
Where MY Possessions Lie”
I am so glad that you have this blog up. So happy that Ted has helped make this a reality. I know that like myself it is hard sometimes to put certain feelings into mere words, but you are doing a more than wonderful job.
I think that I know why you meet with so much opposition from time to time. It’s because you have a story to tell, one that enriches people in a most unusual way. You are genuine. And that appeals to some and terrifies others.
Thanks again for your openess. Its rare and wonderful! We are all so much richer for having known you. Oh! HAPPY NEW YEAR MAN! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Sean
Sean
While I lived in the middle east my travels had taken me to the Giza Plateau. Arriving with my driver who I had paid in advance and reqested he return for I was to galavant till the subset.
Here before me stood the Red Pyramid my mind soared with visions of labor camps and great contraptions lifting enorous stones.
The Sphynx is a silent guardian to an age of a great people.There vision of a life without the borders of the ordinary ,had taken great leaps in defining a belief.
Set in in stone let it guard the soul to its destination and let it stand the very test that is time.
This swept my world the little I thought I understood was now of no purpose , a vision was born from the genius of a belief .
My good man I stand bewildered by the journey of living.
forever
friends
Jerry
Happy New Year to you, Jerry!
2009 will always be special to me because it is the year I met you!
Indeed, there is a thin line between the past and the present. I love memories and nostalgia. I will always carry pieces of my own past with me… and I do miss so many people I never met.
Marjorie
We are responsible for those who have loved us , it is the least we can do to honor those who have taugh us what they had held so dear.
It is I who am honored to share my life with you !
forever friends
Jerry
I agree Jerry
Dawn
my dear one,
Ive so many ideas they would be nothing without friends.,
yours
forever
Jerry