Dedicated to the Holy Father, Pope Francis, on his visit to the Philippines, January 2015
Dr Abe V Rotor Living with Nature School on Blog Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid with Ms Melly C Tenorio 738 DZRB AM Band, 8-9 evening class, Monday to Friday
![]() | A Landscape of Life in acrylic (2' x 5') by AVRotor 2014, showing details. ![]()
A landscape that gains back clarity and focus, though slowly, from strained vision of light and shadow, fast moving cars and blinking screens;
A landscape that gets frayed nerves back to function in reflexes governed by the conscious and unconscious mind in peace and harmony;
A landscape that restores freshness and purity of the primary colors, and expresses the full colors of the rainbow with the hand, paint and canvas;
A landscape that makes forests lush green, distant mountains blue, trees in autumn in hues of yellow to red, and the sky azure as the deep sea;
A landscape that brings back consciousness to watch migrating birds in the sky, fish in the stream, and a drop of pond water teeming with life;
A landscape that sets the biological clock attune with the passing of seasons, and to understand the mystery of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring;
A landscape that is courageous to face force majeure and patient enough to bear the brunt as the landscape gains back its health and beauty;
A landscape that witnesses the transformation of a swamp into grassland and woodland in an orderly fashion that spawns biological diversity;
A landscape that establishes niches and bridges of past and present, tradition and modern, living and the non-living in Rousseau’s scenery;
A landscape that soothes noise into joyous sound, bleating and thunder as part of a Beethoven’s composition, chirping a language of praise;
A landscape that releases us from confinement in Plato’s Allegory to face the realities of the world, which is the essence of education;
A landscape that is viewed with the power of the mind, heart and spirit, be it real or abstract - yet it gives meaning to reverence to our Creator;
A landscape that lifts the curtain and opens a horizon on which each one of us passes but once, an experience more than destiny and eternity. ~ |
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