Magic indeed. That two-page spread with the humming bird just left of center…the world around it has depth and shadow and color. It’s wonderful how the essence of a landscape or a tiny scene, the feel of a particular space, is rendered with the deft placement of shading and changes in color. It reminds me of the New Confessionals, who weren’t trying to relate historical or factual truth, but would use such things, reworking them with added “pigment” to get at an emotional truth, more than the thing, but the weight of a thing.
Thank you for your thought filled comment, Anthony. I have not heard of the New Confessionals. I goggled it but not sure I’m on the right track. Do you have a link to share? I would love to learn more about it.
I can give you some names, names you will recognize: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell. And I think Snodgrass worked in new confessional, but I may be misremembering that one.
Char, I read this and "waited" a day and night. This evening the message was even more precious. True-ly prophetic. Thank you. Just hit me deeply - our sister Theresa said so many times - "Wait and see." Our Mother taught her that. I felt a current run thru me just now remembering. Our Spirits meld and merge and message our Souls over time and distance and space. Char, Thank you for making mystery visible and audible. .
“Our spirits meld and merge and message our souls over time and distance and space.”
Oh, how I love this.
We talk of Theresa often. I just recalled to John the other day how she used to ask me, “You stay with John?” And I would always say “Yes, I’ll stay with John.”
Love and miss her and all the messages she gave to all of us in her own way. 🫶🏼❤️🫶🏼
Watercolor magic!
Thank you, Jo! I love watercolor😍
Magic indeed. That two-page spread with the humming bird just left of center…the world around it has depth and shadow and color. It’s wonderful how the essence of a landscape or a tiny scene, the feel of a particular space, is rendered with the deft placement of shading and changes in color. It reminds me of the New Confessionals, who weren’t trying to relate historical or factual truth, but would use such things, reworking them with added “pigment” to get at an emotional truth, more than the thing, but the weight of a thing.
Thank you for your thought filled comment, Anthony. I have not heard of the New Confessionals. I goggled it but not sure I’m on the right track. Do you have a link to share? I would love to learn more about it.
I can give you some names, names you will recognize: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell. And I think Snodgrass worked in new confessional, but I may be misremembering that one.
Thank you.
Ahh, I love lupines. Thanks for this, Char.
Me too🫶🏼
Char, I read this and "waited" a day and night. This evening the message was even more precious. True-ly prophetic. Thank you. Just hit me deeply - our sister Theresa said so many times - "Wait and see." Our Mother taught her that. I felt a current run thru me just now remembering. Our Spirits meld and merge and message our Souls over time and distance and space. Char, Thank you for making mystery visible and audible. .
“Our spirits meld and merge and message our souls over time and distance and space.”
Oh, how I love this.
We talk of Theresa often. I just recalled to John the other day how she used to ask me, “You stay with John?” And I would always say “Yes, I’ll stay with John.”
Love and miss her and all the messages she gave to all of us in her own way. 🫶🏼❤️🫶🏼
And I was there!!!!
Yep!