Finding Richard Parker

In all of us, there is a Richard Parker.  Red mixes with yellow to become orange.  But it could continue as a red and/or a yellow.  Sometimes mixed together yields a eye-catching response as seen below. And more than the eye can behold.
 

Submerged in water, the colors, once separate like Richard Parker expand to reveal more complexity.  All the what if's.  Our deepest fears. Much like the effect water has on this watercolor as it meanders, finding its way downhill. What happens on the downward spiral offers a window into the world as it is.  Nature.

Richard Parker, like the lion in the Life of Pi, is the yin and yang, the polar opposites that are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world. Primary colors mixed for a painting offer a glimpse into all that is possible.It is in the natural world where we are left to our own devices.  A Lord of the Flies experience.  Chaos.  Beauty.  Adrift in the sea. India at its sensory overload bringing us back to ourselves or INDIA, I Am Not Doing It Again.  All the while taking away an appreciation of life rather than seeing it as a right. The color tells it all.  Mixed and meandered.

It is the natural world that shows our mettle. It is the light and dark, good and evil, passive and aggressive, male and female. Circuitous.

Finding Richard Parker was the ultimate gift of enlightment. Because in Richard Parker we learn to live fully in the moment with all of its senses, all of its colors. Ultimately bringing us back to the moment and to ourselves.