Friday, January 16, 2009

RELATIONSHIP












"In the midst of total uncertainty, we can love."

(from ST. NADIE IN WINTER: ZEN ENCOUNTERS WITH LONELINESS, Terrance Keenan)

Thanks to WHISKEY RIVER for guiding me to Terrance Keenan's book.

A friend directed my attention to Van Gogh's "Rain--Auvers," one of his last paintings. Looking at it made me think of R who was an 芸術家 who made a living as a 大工 and, I am certain, felt a kinship with van Gogh as he painted his last paintings at the VA hospital where he died last April.

"In the midst of total uncertainty, we can paint."

5 comments:

The Solitary Walker said...
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The Solitary Walker said...

Sorry about the deletion - my thoughts were a mess! But I was just thinking something like: perhaps we could go further and say: DESPITE or even BECAUSE OF total uncertainty, we can... paint/love/live etc.

Just a thought.

am said...

Good thought, solitary walker. Thanks so much for picking up the idea and taking it further.

Dale said...

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R.L. Bourges said...

oh, thanks for the intro to Whiskey River. Love it.

And love the Nabokov quote on that blog: "Our imagination flies; we are its shadow on the earth." (I sense this is going to get some play over in Graulhet...)
:-)