Things We Can't Recall
"And I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of their child's hair. the silence of a forest, their lover's crooked grin. Their country, their religion, their family. And I believe that if you follow this love all the way to its end, if you start with the thing you find most beautiful and trace its perfume back to its essence, you will perceive an intangible presence, a swath of stillness that allows the thing you love to be visible like the openness of the sky reveals the presence of the moon."
This quote is from Geneen Roth's book Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
which is rocking my world right now.Things We Can't Recall is a new painting about those details of the things that we find most beautiful, that permeate us until only the trace remains because in time, we have become them and they have become us.
It is about the distant echo of a heartbeat. The trace of a scent long forgotten. A quiet dear voice.
2 comments:
another beautiful one! that quote is fabulous as well. I have heard of that book and may have to check it out, although i have no idea when i will read it.
I got it instantly. Before I read the post I was recalling "memories" from childhood. Quick little visuals and of course, I wish I could recall the details from those memories. Those horses just transported me like a living dream. Just beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
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