The Pecan Park Eagle

The Jung Center
5200 Montrose Blvd
Houston, TX 77006

Yesterday, Saturday, November 1st, I spent most of that beautiful and briskly cool periwinkle blue sky day in a Jungian Psychology seminar at the Jung Center on Montrose. During the lunch break, I walked across the street to spend some time in the MFAH Statue Garden at the intersection of Binz and Montrose – which becomes Bissonett and Montrose on the west side of the latter named street.

What a cool place that is, the MFAH Statue Garden. I had not seen it in about a decade, but it was like  a homecoming visit with some art pieces I’ve known almost my entire life. I simply enjoy the visceral sensory experience of being in the company of art sculpture and beauty in a really natural setting that is quiet and peaceful – especially in the noon day sun of a fresh Houston autumn day.

For whatever reason, I’ve almost always associated the ironic thoughts of visionary comedian Steven Wright with these beautiful images in the Houston Museum district. Here are a few photos I took yesterday, along with a quote from Wright, following each. If the quotes are connected to images at all, I’m not conscious of what their connections may be. I simply believe that both Steven Wright and the MFAH Statue Garden are both extremely cool and pleasing to the creative blood that passes through all our veins – and that they are both true givers, no false givers, of all they’ve got to give.

Life is good. Live in the moment as much as possible. Enjoy life. Discover your gifts and give them back to life without concern for your reward. It will come from the giving, but only if we give our hearts to whatever it may be that we fully choose to do without resentment. People who create great works of art give that beauty to us. And people who can make us smile with their everyday observations of life are like the donors of a great curative tonic for the soul and spirit of our being. Whatever we have that is our gift, we need to find it and give it back to life too, even if it means leaving our comfort zone to do so, because it very well may. As an aging Marlon Brando character once uttered in the Don Juan movie he made with Johnny Depp: (paraphrased here in greater detail for even greater clarity):  “No fire, no heat.-  No heat, no warmth. – No warmth, no love. – No love, no life.”

Enjoy your trip to the MFAH Sculpture Garden with Steven Wright, everybody:

“On Halloween, I went to a party dressed as The Equator. When anyone came near me, they got warmer.” – Steven Wright

“I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.” – Steven Wright

“All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.” – Steven Wright

“I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
” – Steven Wright

“What happens if you get scared half to death twice?”
– Steven Wright

‘I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.”
— Steven Wright

“When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, “Well, what do you need?”
— Steven Wright

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.”
– Steven Wright

“Change is inevitable….except from vending machines.
– Steven Wright

“A fool and his money are soon partying.”
– Steven Wright

Party Hardy, Everybody!