Jonathan L. Seagull Painting

“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.” “‘You can call me Jon.’” “Yet he felt guiltless, breaking the promises he had made himself. Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise.” “The trick was to know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time.” “‘Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.’” “It all made sense. It was pure logic, and Anthony Seagull had all his life tried to abide by honesty and logic.” “So this is heaven, he thought, and he had to smile at himself. It was hardly respectful to analyze heaven in the very moment that one flies up to enter it.” “For in spite of his lonely past, Jonathan Seagull was born to be an instructor, and his own way of demonstrating love was to give something of the truth that he had seen to a gull who asked only a chance to see truth for himself.” “It felt like being hit with a board. His knees went weak, his feathers sagged, there was roaring in his ears. Centered for shame? Impossible! The Breakthrough! They can’t understand! They’re wrong, they’re wrong!” “From a thousand feet, flapping his wings as hard as he could, he pushed over into a blazing steep dive toward the waves, and learned why seagulls don’t make blazing steep power-dives.” “But Jonathan Livingston Seagull, unashamed, stretching his wings again in that trembling hard curve—slowing, slowing, and stalling once more—was no ordinary bird.” “His one sorrow was not solitude, it was that other gulls refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see.” -Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:72 W x 48 H x 1.5 D in

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