Do You Hear Eric Hoffer’s Heartsong?

Do You Hear Eric Hoffer’s Heartsong?

            1.   If you’re not familiar with Eric Hoffer, one of our national

                  treasures, Google, check him out on Wikipedia.

            2.   What he does for us here, without any formal education,

                  is translate, interpret, paint, and sing from his large

                  heart.

            3.   Have you seen a field of summer wheat at a red sundown as a

                  sea of fire that enlarges and fills your being.

           

            4.   Have you scooped your hand under the Statue of Liberty

                  and lifted it arm’s length as she lifts the torch?

            5.   Have you shrunk yourself and ridden the wings of the

                  hummingbird, dipping with her to the marigold just

                  before noon?.

            6.   What beckons you when you wake to the mourning

                  dove? When you hear the call, where do you go?

            7.   Tell me, how do the flute and player become one?

Frame

A

longshoreman

on the

San Francisco

docks

says

the frame

of the

glassless

window

in his

tool shed

presents

a portrait

each day

that rivals

the finest

galleries

of the

world.

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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