How do we choose to travel?
What is reliable in the rain?
What is our ultimate destination,
for this time, this journey, or
this day?
We move at the speed of life.
Depending on traffic, others
may chose to follow your path,
but not your direction.
© 2021 j.g. lewis
A little cold, little wet,
a little tired and yet
I am here. Still,
full of wonder.
The morning chill leaves
little to the imagination
and much less
to hope for.
Expected, perhaps, as it
always is, this time, this
season is only what
we ask of it.
11/21/2024 j.g.l.
The answers are far less certain
than even last week, to all those
perennial questions or solutions
you might seek.
What do you believe, or
what do you believe in?
Come Monday, you have fewer
questions than you had last week.
For a while there are less doubts
in what you believe.
Whom do you believe in,
and who believes in you?
11/18/2024 j.g.l.
I'm like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.
Many of us — certainly me in particular — have long maintained a fascination with other people’s stuff.
Collections in museums and galleries have often provided historic relevance to the life and times of human beings like us, and the recent installation at the Art Gallery of Ontario furthers our fascination with renowned Canadian Leonard Cohen.
Everybody Knows: Inside his Archives provides a deeper view into Cohen’s poetry, his songs, and cultural influence. This is the first museum exhibit to showcase the contents of his collection and career spanning more than five decades.
Insightful and inspiring, the AGO exhibit provides a glimpse into his early life in Westmount, Montreal (his lifetime home) and showcases personal diaries, Polaroid and photo-booth selfies, sketches on napkins and drawings and paintings of an artist whose myth and legend is well know beyond this country.
While the multi-media screens broadcast interviews and performances you cannot help but be spellbound by, it is the intimate handwritten notes, report cards, and letters to and from Cohen that provide context to the deceased artist’s life.
So much has been written about Cohen and so much more is to be seen.
Everybody Knows leaves you wanting more.
01/08/2023 j.g.l.
I’m like a pencil;
sometimes sharp,
most days
well-rounded,
other times
dull or
occasionally
broken.
Still I write.
j.g. lewis
is a writer/photographer in Toronto.