commonplace holiness

 

we have astonishment
there is life held within materials
and in the art made from them

This is an idea Giuseppe Penone speaks about often.
Astonishment.  Poetry.
That there is life held within materials.

My friend, Connie Wilson,  gave me these handkerchiefs.  (I wrote about them here)
She died on Saturday and I miss her.

 

she was a daughter of the spirit,
a friend for two dozen years,
she taught me how to love