“Don’t you think it’s pretty, all these trees, these hawthorns! And my pond – which you’ve never congratulated me on! You’re looking as sad as an old dishcloth. Feel that little breeze? Oh, say what you like, life has something to offer despite everything, my dear Amédée!”
– Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
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“Still, a great deal of light falls on everything.”
– Vincent Van Gogh, quoted in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
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There is always something to notice.
A glimpse of life that can lift the spirits.
There really is, even if at times the world can feel mighty small and bare.
It can happen in nature, on the page, anywhere we care to look.
But to notice something wonderful we must take the step outside, pick up the book, have faith that there is always so much more to see, experience and absorb.
I’m going to pick up a book, relax, and wait to catch sight of something new.
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