Roads Unknown

 

Poet, Robert Frost, took “the road less traveled.”

Baseball Hall of famer, Yogi Berra, suggested

when coming to a fork in the road, “take it.”

Early on in life when I was able to choose for

myself, I took Roads Unknown. Why on Earth

would I do such a thing, you may be asking?

Because the road I was on was not working for

me and something had to change.

For better or worse things eventually lead to

where I needed to be at any given time and place.

I found that my staying in one place too long was

a big mistake.

Roads Unknown proved to teach me what I needed

to grow experientially and emotionally. Art, photog-

raphy and poetry became my tools of expression.

This is the life I see, perceive, feel and portray today.

Tomorrow with a new canvas, my style or take on

things is bound to change. For me, living a life of

relative sameness and false security was never

meant to be.

When people I have known expressed that I have

myriad artistic styles and present a wide and varied

diversity, it all makes relative sense, you see.

Athens, Greece, Sydney, Australia and Camp Point,

Illinois, sadness and joy, depression, drunkenness and

sobriety were Roads Unknown which provided a world

of inspiration for me.

Fortunately, for the most part, even the people I’ve

met along the way did not present a boring black and

white portrait of innocuous uniformity.

                        -30-

Chris Hanch 6-6-2021