RED FLAG

Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire. —Saint Catherine of Siena

You can be a healing presence today in someone's life. —Venerable Mary Potter LCM

We are consciously choosing to shape the future, rather than allowing the future to shape us. —Sr. Sheila Lemieux CSJP

We all work, but it is the spirit in which we work for which we will be rewarded. —Venerable Mary Potter LCM

Prayer is communing with God with my whole being. —Sr. Andrea Nenzel CSJP

We are beginning a new order. We want brave, noble, large-minded, courageous souls. —Mother Frances Clare CSJP

On the path of life, you have been chosen to make the difference!  —Sr. Aileen Trainor CSJP

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. —Saint Teresa of Calcutta

Let us never forget that ........ exists to serve the community. —Sr. Monica Heeran CSJP

It is most important to inspire the young with a great love of peace. —Mother Frances Clare CSJP

Where are we headed today?

I’ll walk from here, I say. Thanks for the ride.

How will you get back? Megan asks.

Back to where?

Galway. Your life. Isn't that where it is?

I don't know the answer to that. I had thought my life was just here, with me.

— Charlotte McConaghy, in Migrations (A Novel, 2020)

NOTES
— Slap Tags courtesy LiFE and others, Unofficial Art in Public Placements. Eugene, Oregon, April-August 2022. Copyrights accrue to the artists, noting street artwork is ever fleeting, ephemeral, melting to extinction.  Red Flag Warning.

Photos by Douglas Beauchamp, assuming creative intervention to interpret and present. 

— Captions courtesy the “We are the Legacy” walkway on the grounds of Riverbend Medical Center, Springfield, Oregon. (BELOW, an example)

— Personal Note. This writer had the good fortune during a singular season to room in Siena (Tuscany) Italy in the convent (Santuario S.Caterina Alma Domus) associated with former family home of the woman who would become the prescient Saint Catherine of Siena: …and you will set the world on fire.

CODA

A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now....or will shortly.

RED FLAG:  When used metaphorically, the phrase can be used to denote a critical turning point when a situation becomes urgent.

LIFE:  When used metaphorically, the phrase can be used to denote a critical turning point when a situation becomes (.......) 

 

MURAL ELECTRIC

Vanishing points

As nothing as divine... in silence Via negativa

The Shining signs the inner eye

Innocence of art and Art

The Artist knowing what she's into

Coppering wires spill gold the Wishing

Longing

Reluctance of meaning glazes Desire

Earth marveling awash in color

Extreme temperatures will continue until at least the 2060s, even in the best possible emissions reduction scenarios.  — World Meterological Organization, July 19, 2022.  

(Dare we wonder… what happens in the 2070s?)

NOTES

— Click for the 2018 Mural Electric collection

    http://www.isupportstreetart.com/mural-electric/

— Photos 2020s Eugene Oregon. Douglas Beauchamp, a'drift and ever a'blink in this surprising world... a'blest by art!

CODA: EARTHx2

 

Above: EARTH 1 painted several years ago, 27th & Willamette Eugene.

Below: EARTH 2 erased EARTH 1. July 2022.

(We wonder.... how will "EARTH" re-appear circa 2060s?) 

TWO CHAIRS

 

A presence doubly so before an absence.

This gathering of Twosomes, a random witnessing during Time Pandemic, did not begin with an intention of theme. Rather, simply coalesced drifting the streets of Eugene. Most surprising: I do not recall seeing two people sitting in two chairs. Or one next to vacancy. Or, perhaps I did and was too shy to photo. Perhaps. I did not take it upon myself to sit; to occupy absence. Or, perhaps? The accident of regard suffices.

An absence doubly so after a presence.