Honesty: the quality of being truthful, sincere, and free of deceit.
No one else can enforce my honesty but me, and I have no power over another's honesty.
Honesty requires trust. At times I deceive, perhaps to protect myself or someone else, or to benefit in some way. I may feign honesty or call the honesty of another into question when I sense risk or reward.
When making art I can be wholly honest, and among my greatest pleasures is in its sharing.
I say something directly: I scan the horizon, a thin line where the sea meets the sky.
I say something with more significance: I look out across the sea along its meeting with the sky.
I say something metaphorically: I am the sea and you the sky, we meet, far, far away.
As I gaze across the sea to where it greets the sky I think of my difference with another, and how certain, yet distant it seems we are and will remain. Where sea meets sky, where sky meets sea.
Soon after I wake I gaze at the planet Venus shining bright above the horizon as the night sky lifts with the cusp of dawn. I see nothing but the interruption of a small ball of shimmering light against the deep dark blue, and yet I feel something powerful, something far more than a rational view of the sky.
What I see is as difficult to articulate as what I do not see.
Beauty is not confined by my sensory experience, as is its sibling, wonder.
William Shakespeare
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Think This Today is the creation of Mike de Sousa, an artist, writer, and composer.