And Yet...

It is almost a year now since this site began, and with this upcoming anniversary, some further thoughts come to mind - especially on the perennially remarked 'theme'...   while, as mentioned, there are no dirth of ideas which seem to flow from me, that does not necessarily mean that those ideas are imbibed with passion, something often overlooked by those who are content to have the ideas, even if not particularly great ones...   for the past many months and years even, many of the ideas I've seen fit to render have been involved with the seemingly minutiae of life, despite the multiple layers the metaphors engendered...   there is nothing wrong in this, as many have brought to me much satisfaction not just in the doing but in the conceiving...   but there always has, in the back of my mind, been another course - one which has only been sporadically pursued, and with oft felt regrets that more had not been made of it...  no, tho this stemmed from my youth of many years ago,  I do not consider it nostalgia in any manner, only that for in part the sake of getting more rendered there was in a manner a forsaking of a to me grander view...   to say the least, the prospects of doing these grander view in pen and ink would to almost all others seem a madness that makes my present ones quite sane in comparison, and that the doing would mean loads longer times involved in the doings, still the prospects of seeing my worlds at large in the large, with the intimate details which should accompany...   I am speaking, of course, with regards the original notion of what 'Visioneer Windows' pertained, and which at one time was rendered in acrylics yet now see at least some of the time as worth glorifying in pen and ink - true ink painting, true rendering in the GRAND manner...