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This is a David Hockney painting that brings me very close to the relationship I have with nature. I am right inside that canopy, right under that green shelter, supported by the visor and struggle of bent and twisted trunks. "As never before in history, common destiny beckons us to seek a new beginning...let ours be a time remembered for the awakening of a new reverence for life, the firm resolve to achieve sustainability, the quickening of the struggle for justice and peace, and the joyful celebration of life." another borrowing, this time from the Earth Charter and quoted in Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment. I return to writing at a time when I also return to my own life, having wondered far and wide in other people's lives and in the service of other interests, wider perhaps than the immediately personal but also alien and exhausting. I am back. |
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