Spearhead
I met artist and architect Ran Webber last week. After a bit of conversation, he rummaged around. “Gotta find you something,” he said. When he came back, Ran gave me one of his American Art Collector books. His painting, Pindar, was photographed along with other juried artworks. Pindar was also on display for awhile in the AlbrightKnox Sales/Rental Gallery in Buffalo, New York.
I flipped though the art book, but Ran had other ideas. He held another surprise in his hands.
“I’d like you to have this,” he said.
I put the book down.
“To commemorate the spearheading of your campaign to sell your book and for the success of adopted children…”
I quickly corrected him. “Adopted people. Gotta teach you the correct terms…”
“Okay, adopted people…to spearhead your campaign for civil rights, I’d like you to have this spearhead. I made it.”
He placed a beautifully fashioned spearhead in my hands.
The 2 1/2 by 5 1/2 inch blade had been chipped from a slice of volcanic glass — a deep charcoal-colored obsidian. When held up to the sunlight, the translucent stone shimmered with slanted gradients of grey stripes. When held flat, the stone appeared a shadowy black. Its multi-conical surface bounced shinny white light. A few fractured specs held tiny rainbows.
It was a simple gift. The sentiment behind it has inspired me to renew creative dreams. Like light dancing off this spearhead’s surface, my thoughts now are flickering forward, spearheading vistas as I step into possibilities. Success is just around the corner: for my book sales, for the goals of adoption reform, and for Ran Webber’s Buffalo Skyway Project — all dreams by visionaries who see a better way.
Leading with a dream.
Spearheading Projects.
~ ~ ~ Joan M Wheeler, BA, BSW, author of Forbidden Family, Trafford Publishing, Nov 2009.
