#2 Lilly Bye of Birdland

Post date: Aug 28, 2015 10:50:17 PM

Today I send you the second of a five piece art series about my dear friend Lilly Bye and what she learned when cloistered with her feathered friends in Birdland. This piece is titled and inscribed on the bottom as follows: "#2 Lilly Bye of Birdland......learned to be wary of her enemies but to strive and hope that one day they could be friends and mutual allies". The piece is 11 1/2" long x 4" wide x 5 1/2" high.

Is strange how as we travel down the many highways of life we often bump into stranger who causes us to pause and question just who they are and what they are really all about and if they are enemy/foe. We've met such persons via professional, business or simple personal situations. There is just something about them which just rubs us the wrong way and somehow gets our dander up. Without any facts we personally condemn them as being our personal public enemy #1. After perhaps a few occasional meetings we may question our original assessments/judgments of them. Decent individuals allow those who have been put on trial to state their case before their one man jury. Funny, but the returned verdicts aren't often what may have been originally anticipated.

A few years back, a deceased friend and I had a poolside conversation about some of the a..holes we had come across in our lives who ended up being an irreplaceable ally in various aspects of our lives. Somehow we both fashioned out pigeon holes where we could temporarily be friends and stand back to back fending off opposition in a bar room brawl. Never got to be close friends with most Too often each of our basic tenets and personal incompatibilities kept a fence between us. Though we never rooted for the same team, went to the same tailor/barber/church or voted for the same political party, we always made sure to send those birthday cards, holiday greetings or notes of congratulations. Think that like Lilly Bye, it is okay to be somewhat wary towards/about some strangers initially, but if you are a truly a decent person you give them a second, even a third look. You may not find the perfect friend/ally, but will discover there is good in most out there that can be willingly shared and always be agreed on.

(To see photos of the above art piece go to https://sites.google.com/site/jmdodigartphotos )