I hope you’re enjoying your childhood.
When you grow up, a shadow falls.
Everything’s sunny and then
this big goddamn wing or something passes overhead.
~ Joy Williams, The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
Notes:
- NY Times book review (September 15, 2015) for: Review: The Stories of Joy Williams: Short, but Seldom Sweet
- Quote Source: Magnificent Ruin
- Art: Digital artist and graphic designer – Omer Agam (via dose.com)
I need a ‘love’ button.
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Thanks for sharing
and it will pass over and the light will return once more. don’t surrender to the shadow of the wing.
Yes, big or little.
And sadly, as children, we don’t have the foresight to understand what a carefree time it is, we just barrel through, planning all the things we can do ‘when we’re grown-ups.’
Isn’t that the truth…
Super !
A different type of responsibility takes flight…..and then luckily some adults realize that they can, again engage their inner Joy…
Underscore “some”. Yes.
Beautiful, but not my experience. I was born with clouds scuttling across the sky, slivers of sunlight so dazzling between the storms.
How beautifully stated!
Love this. I guess when death passed over my head, the dark cloud stayed for awhile, but once I realised it didn’t have to, I began to see the cloud pass and reveal the beauty of the blue sky again.
And you, friend, as basking in it now…
Then, if you’re graced, you see the light and the object create each other, an essence shared by all things and events. There’s conflict only when you can’t see the bigger picture, the overarching totality. Doesn’t necessarily take away our suffering, but gives it a wider perspective. I think that is the gift of age.
Terrific insight Debra. I do think it is the gift of age – yet, for some of us, the enlightening takes longer…
magic and delicate, love it!
It is. Thank you.