{"id":715,"date":"2020-08-18T17:27:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=715"},"modified":"2020-08-27T17:42:25","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T17:42:25","slug":"jack-r-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/08\/18\/jack-r-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack R. Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-27-2020-for-Jacks-into-1024x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-27-2020-for-Jacks-into-1024x451.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-27-2020-for-Jacks-into-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-27-2020-for-Jacks-into-768x338.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-27-2020-for-Jacks-into-1536x676.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-27-2020-for-Jacks-into-2048x902.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8-27-2020-for-Jacks-into-604x266.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/Jack's%205th%20Anniversary%20of%20Leaving.m4a?_t=1597774800\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.2\"><br><strong><em>Jack R. Hughes on the Fifth Anniversary of Your Leaving<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>Clarity: clear or lucid regarding understanding\/perception.\u00a0 Transparent.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Five years ago, my talented husband, Jack, left this dimension for another adventure.\u00a0 One of the things I admired most about him was his ability to cast aside self-doubt and try something new.\u00a0 I don\u2019t recall Jack ever being thwarted by anyone\u2019s opinion, words, or efforts in attempting to dissuade him.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Everyone is multi-dimensional, and I shiver when I think of what every one of us COULD be, if we stopped listening to everyone else\u2019s opinions of what we SHOULD be.\u00a0 <br>\u00a0\u00a0<br>The longer I live, the more likely it seems if we \u201cgo with the flow\u201d wherever we land is where we are supposed to be.\u00a0  <br>\u00a0<br>It&#8217;s important to try and integrate this thought into our daily mantra: change is good.\u00a0 <br>\u00a0<br>Now, right now, in the twenty-first century, most us understand we are not bound or chained to one profession or career.\u00a0 We do not live in a time when our birth, our social or financial status, the level of school we achieved (or didn\u2019t), where ANY factor defines who we are and what we can achieve.\u00a0 In this present time, nothing ~ no rule, no person, no outward definition of who others may THINK we are, genuinely defines us.\u00a0 This is an AMAZING time to be alive.<br>\u00a0<br>If this pandemic has taught us anything, it should be this:\u00a0 nothing is guaranteed.\u00a0 Pursue dreams.<br>\u00a0<br>Impossible is just a word.\u00a0 It means nothing, unless we GIVE it meaning. \u00a0Jack taught me that. \u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Clarity ~ do we ever find it? Are we wasting our time, looking? Will we always, only, see in an obscured mirror and never really unmask who we are and what intentions we originally held, when we were born?<br>\u00a0<br>Everything we experience is part of the process of guiding us Home.\u00a0 It\u2019s not about what we can \u2018accomplish\u2019 in this life, not about how we \u2018present\u2019 to others, what we\u2019re remembered for or how much we can earn, get, control etc.\u00a0 It\u2019s about what we learn, you know, those really hard lessons about setting aside ego, hate, unkindness, intolerance, power. \u00a0All the societal bytes we\u2019ve allowed others to tell us, \u201cyeah, those things are what defines you\u201d, in truth they are meaningless.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Some of us might not get too far, this time, because maybe we\u2019re all wound up, caught up, trapped inside those information bits Facebook, Amazon and Google keep track of and which they believe will tell them exactly what our individual paradigms are\/WHO WE ARE\/our DEFINITION when in fact, those \u201cprofiles\u201d can be as manipulated as everything else in this Brave New World of obsessive technology.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>Jack seldom got on a computer ~ he was too busy creating a sculpture, a painting, a garden, a studio.\u00a0 He simply didn\u2019t NEED or WANT anyone\u2019s approval.  He was a GENIUS and geniuses need space, they crave imaginative ideas, they anchor themselves in a kind of dreamlike state and often find it hard to re-enter the \u2018real\u2019 world.\u00a0 They need muses and victims, they need silence and solitude, they do not need approval.\u00a0 They do not care what you, me, or anyone else thinks, because they are DRIVEN by some undefinable force.\u00a0 That\u2019s the difference: most of us SLOG through life, many of us with no direction and bound by convention, worried what \u201cothers will think\u201d.\u00a0 They SPRINT, from one idea\/concept to the next.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>CLARITY will, surely, be obscured for many of us, but those who really don\u2019t worry about limitations might just achieve it sooner, because they were able to rise and secure a farther view.\u00a0 Maybe they\u2019re the ones who \u201csee the forest AND the trees\u201d.<br>\u00a0<br>So, Dear Jack, on this your five year anniversary of leaving us, I thank you ~ there are so many lessons and levels of thinking you dragged me into, so much chaos and calm, so many different ideas to consider that I just hope I have the time to chip away at them, examine them and learn from them in this all too brief life.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>I hope you have finally found some semblance of peace.\u00a0\u00a0 Some serenity.\u00a0 \u00a0I know when you return, anything goes, so Rest Well, Dear Jack.\u00a0 Rest Well.<br>\u00a0<br>8-25-2020 Jack\u2019s Fifth Anniversary by Barbara Helvey-Hughes<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infamous Jack Hughes quote: &#8220;In art, as in life, if I&#8217;m unconcerned about where I am then I&#8217;m never lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays","category-love","category-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}