Strolling Down To The Sandbar

Bruce Springsteen: The River

Some paintings become famous because, being durable, they are viewed by successive generations, in each of which are likely
to be found a few appreciative eyes.
I know a painting so evanescent
that it is seldom viewed at all,
except by some wandering deer.
It is a river who wields the brush,
and it is the same river who,
before I can bring my friends
to view his work, erases it forever
from human view. After that
it exists only in my mind's eye.

Bruce Springsteen: The River...6/29/85

Like other artists, my river is temperamental; there is no predicting when the mood to paint will come upon him, or how long it will last. But in midsummer, when the great white fleets cruise the sky for day after flawless day,
it is worth strolling down to the sandbars
just to see whether he has been at work.

--Aldo Leopold
A Sand County Almanac

Bruce Springsteen: The River...6/27/09

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