Sparrow & Nail
Sparrow & Nail
13” x 13”
Oil on Canvas
August 20-21 2022
“Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long ago, comes over me like a vapor. With growth into adulthood, responsibilities claimed me, so many heavy coats. I didn’t choose them, I don’t fault them, but it took time to reject them. Now in the spring I kneel, I put my face into the packet of violets, the dampness, the freshness, the send of ever-ness. Something is wrong, I know it, if I don’t keep my attention on eternity. May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stand forever in the stream. May I look down upon the windflower and the bullthivstle and the coreopsis with the greatest respect.”
- Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays