In Pursuit of the Almost

"My eyebrows remain fixed in place.

The element of surprise is now missing.

It's not that I have seen it all,

It's that all I've seen is not enough." - Phil Ginsburg

There is more to life than what we think we see. We are in pursuit of the almost.

What is the almost? It is the artist's role to point that out, to show what is there but unseen. As artist René Magritte stated: "If the dream is a translation of waking life, then waking life is also a translation of the dream."

Writing with whimsy, Ne...