Thoughts on "small"...
Today I'm reminded of Emily Carr's "Book of Small"... I was reading this book when my father was dying and lost it in the hospital during one of my visits... Emily Carr's book was about her childhood and losing it when I did, helped confirm my feeling that I was leaving childhood behind with the steps I was taking with my father...
However, now, here on this blog, I feel I'm writing my own "Book of Small". Unlike Emily Carr's book, my book is not about my childhood experiences. Rather, it is about the small things in life...the basic experience "stuff" of life. I'm re-connecting to "small", but in a different way... This time, I feel I'm leaving much of the adult, human world, with all of its scientific explanations, recipes and "knowledge" behind and connecting instead to a "child-like" place - which is more open and receptive to life just as it comes and feels. For me, it's a fairy tale like place; where awe, wonder and magic still predominate, but are balanced by: vulnerability, confusion and unknowing as well as by the fear which lurks in the shadows behind these...
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