Apparently reading this blog is not a waste of time

Nothing is a waste of time if you

use the experience wisely .

What counts, in the long run is not what you read;

it is what you sift through your own mind;

it is the ideas and impressions that are

aroused in you by your reading

Elanor Roosevelt

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Since Rodin got me thinking

I was thinking about "Karl and John"
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One of the really good times over a lot of years was going to Jazz games with Mike. I can tell you that it took me a lot of time to like sports. Before Mike came along the only one in our house who liked sports was Kathy. She grew up in a house where folks watched the games. I didn't. I really learned to like basketball. I am not sure if we will ever see another team as great to follow as was the Jazz during the John and Karl years. What a great story they told.

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Nature imitates Art

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Oscar Wilde made this argument, which at first glance seems backwards. He said by way of example in explaining this that the London fogscape is never seen again in the same way after one has viewed impressionist paintings. Art becomes an education in form. Form created in Art makes the same form in Nature better understood according this this approach.

John and Karl were Art as well as form and they made sports real for me.

(by the way that's "me in the top picture. Reflecting on Karl and John and a blog without a book to use to sift my thoughts.)