acrylic on canvas
I had learned what I knew,
the bare outline of the event,
without asking questions,
both fearing the pain that I knew surrounded the story
and honoring the silence that surrounded the pain.
-Wendell Berry, That distant Land
crip·ple adj. \ˈkri-pəl\ being flawed, imperfect or lame. Old English: crēopan: to creep. An accurate description of this pencil's creative journey : creeping along, flawed, imperfect and lame... yet gaining joy, insight and sanity from the mere act of creeping.
acrylic on canvas
I had learned what I knew,
the bare outline of the event,
without asking questions,
both fearing the pain that I knew surrounded the story
and honoring the silence that surrounded the pain.
-Wendell Berry, That distant Land
This waiting is messy, but one thing is clear:
This waiting is not passive.
This waiting invites us to hold the painful present
and calibrate it with future hope.
The waiting actively affirms the importance of life’s sorrows as
the Man of Sorrows guides us through.
-Mike Ahn
C.S.Lewis
some are strong at the broken places
—Ernest Hemingway
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The only thing that should surprise us
is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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