Checking back in after days of absence. I can only cite an endless chain of interconnected circumstances as the cause (and then effect) of my days (weeks?) of « silence » here…
In the meantime, much ado, much afloat, much afoot.
The city has grown cold.
The markets are falling.
A new restaurant has opened on the corner of my street.
I saw a stunning exhibition of the paintings collected by the Stein family, Gertrude and her two brothers and sister-in-law, in Paris a century ago: Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, and more.
One thing among many that stays: Gertrude, citing Matisse, notes that each thing in a portrait, in paint or words, is as important as another.
The importance of each, the importance of every
About the Author: zenscribe
Enseignante Zen et poète, Sensei Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell est née et a grandi à Minneapolis, aux Etats-Unis. Arrivée en France en 1981 pour étudier la littérature et l’histoire, elle y est restée, s’installant à Paris, où elle élève ses deux enfants et gagne sa vie en tant que journaliste.
The Zen teacher and poet Amy “Tu es cela” Hollowell Sensei was born and raised in Minneapolis, but came to France in 1981 to study literature and history and has lived in Paris ever since, raising her two children and making a living as a journalist.
yet in every painting, piece of music is a hierarchy of things too.
But could we take one note away out of a partita from Bach?