3/4. David Whyte: Jerry Wennstrom - Companionship with the disappearing light

Poet David Whyte offers his poem "Faith" and delves into the "dark side" when he discusses how to become friends with the shadows, the waning moon, and the disappearing light. Why is it, he wonders, why all around us has the cycle of life and death, dark and light, yet we humans expect that we should always be growing like the waxing moon?

He continues to explain the importance of artist Jerry Wennstrom's decision to destroy all his life's work, and throw himself off the precipice into the unknown. The question the artist is always demanding of the world: Will you look..will you see...will you hear?

See more of Wennstrom's life and art on http://www.handsofalchemy.com.

David Whyte's website is http://www.davidwhyte.com

Music courtesy of Paul Adams and horn player David Hoffman: "Zorro and the Fat Man" from their album "Global Dancing on Wonder Bop." See http://www.pauladams.org.

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