KVS

Kathleen Ann Zorko Vs Sarah Louise (Sieler) Fairchild

Sections under this heading relate each woman's impact in my life. I said this in the prologue, but it bears repeating:

Each revealed things in my soul that are essential to understanding who I am, or who I was in life. … which reminds me of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now. I think of Kathy in connection with fantasy & surreal art, and Sarah with revelatory art, both of which are, in fact, creative arts and in some respects the same. Both of them reveal a numinous side of reality. These are the two sides of my mind, art, and personality nourished by these two women. Buffy sees such things as positives and negatives, light and dark -- emotionally and in terms of value; I do not. I see them both as positives -- each unique, beautiful, and valuable in their contributions to life.

Note, Kathy created a reality that she then inhabited. Sarah, my wife 15 years later, on the other hand, inhabited a reality that she then discerned, thereby creating it. These are two very different, but equally numinous things: creation vs revelation. A cloud seen from two sides, as Buffy St. Marie might say. Which makes sense: Kathy was a graphic artist whereas Sarah was a poet; Kathy was pagan, and Sarah was strictly Christian; Kathy applied the numinous, thereby embracing it, whereas Sarah discerned the numinous, thereby creating it – things which I loved about each of them. Yet really, each approach results in the discernment of the luminous in life.  If they had been Japanese, I would say that Kathy was more Shinto, Sarah more Zen.

This is all work in progress, and I have no idea how long it will take me to finish it.So please be patient.