It's because people are so perishable. That's the thing.
Because for everyone you meet there is a last moment, there will
be a last moment when you hand slips from theirs, and everything
ripples outwards from that, the last firmness of a hand in yours
that every moment after becomes a little less firm until you look
down at your own hand and try to imagine just what it felt like
before their hand slipped away. And you cannot. You cannot feel
them. And then you cannot quite see them, there's blurry bits,
like you're looking through this watery haze, and you're fighting
to see, you're fighting to hold on, but they are perishing right
before your eyes, and right before your eyes they are
becoming a bit more ghost.
Because for everyone you meet there is a last moment, there will
be a last moment when you hand slips from theirs, and everything
ripples outwards from that, the last firmness of a hand in yours
that every moment after becomes a little less firm until you look
down at your own hand and try to imagine just what it felt like
before their hand slipped away. And you cannot. You cannot feel
them. And then you cannot quite see them, there's blurry bits,
like you're looking through this watery haze, and you're fighting
to see, you're fighting to hold on, but they are perishing right
before your eyes, and right before your eyes they are
becoming a bit more ghost.
Niall Williams
From: History of the Rain
From: History of the Rain
with thanks to Whiskey River
~
Nothing is more important than empathy for another human
beings' suffering. Nothing. Not career, not wealth, not intelligence,
certainly not status. We have to feel for another if we are going to
survive with dignity.
beings' suffering. Nothing. Not career, not wealth, not intelligence,
certainly not status. We have to feel for another if we are going to
survive with dignity.
Audry Hepburn
with thanks to Whiskey River
~
Photo - Mystic Meandering
Floating Fork :)
What wonderful ghostly floating forks. You introduced me to an exquisite prolific writer I don’t recall knowing about previously. His words are sentimental, relatable and rightly accompanied by words from Audrey Hepburn who personified empathy.
ReplyDeleteActually, it's one fork and its shadow. :) I had put the fork down on the kitchen counter, that had shadows on it, like dappled light, and then noticed the effect. I think I may have also used the "invert" function on Adobe Fireworks, which gave it the floating look - magic :)
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