Jonathan Martin Rosen

I have, over the past few weeks, begun to explore the possibility of getting developers involved with SweetClarity without waiting for the funding process to bear fruits. Over the past years I have had some great experience with Open Source and the people involved in it (I feel they are true social leaders of our time). My wish is to establish SweetClarity with similar qualities.

I spend many hours looking around and realized that I don’t know where to look. It feels like there is a huge community out there - but unless you are a part of it (most likely as a developer?) - is seems to be closed off. So I began grazing the web with google to find some kind of lead. Yesterday something special happened.

My web-wandering brought me to Molly . Molly seems like an interesting and professional person - and she has already kindly replied to an email I sent her. As I browsed her website I came across a page of links to “excellent humans” who seem like her professional circle of friends. I started to browse the page and open a few links - hoping to find some more useful information or leads. I came across Tantek Celik who’s description on Molly’s page I found irresistible.

When I opened Tantek’s web page I was a bit overwhelmed. This guy seems to really have done and know a lot. So I started looking for his email address (or some other means of contact). As I did this - I began to feel distant and disassociated. It took me some to feel that I am facing a new kind of person - one I have not encountered before. Tantek has so much information on his website - and on the web (and I have visited many similar pages) - that I don’t know where to start. To me his life seems hyper-loaded (saw this when I took a step back and just glared at his home page… woah!), his world so different then mine. I began to feel despair. Not only because I couldn’t find his email but because I felt that I may not know how to communicate and relate to people like Tantek who I really want to be involved in SweetClarity. Scary feeling. So I moved on in the page of “excellent humans” …. (Tantek’s page is still open in my browser - I have not given up - I will find a way…)

I then discovered Shirley Kaiser. Shirley heads a web design and development company (maybe a potential collaboration?). She also plays the piano - comforting to find a meeting of technology and the arts (this is what SweetClarity is and needs). A few clicks later I came across Shirley’s art page (warming up…). Somewhere at the bottom of the page I found a link to an organization called SpiritArt (warmer…). As I browsed some of the content at SpiritArt I came across Jonathan Martin Rosen.

Jonathan was a landscape photographer, he left the planet in 1999. I sat in front of the computer, looking for open source developers, captivated by his mystical landscape images. I have seen many landscape images - but these stand apart. At first they looked simple & trivial - but then something happened - Jonathan appeared through the images. I felt (and can still feel) his subtle insight, soft appreciation and warm expression of the world around us. I hope to have the honor of spreading the inspiration of his work through SweetClarity.

So what/who am I looking for? I don’t know where all this is going - but it’s an amazing journey. Molly, Tantek, Shirley, Jonathan… and many other people I have (and will) encountered on the SweetClarity journey - we really are all connected- in ways I can’t begin to imagine. I am so looking forward to the meetings SweetClarity will create in my life.

Thank You