what do you know
Would you know the difference between the sky on fire and an ordinarily beautiful sunset? Would you know what you should or should not eat? Those berries, not these; those green stalks, not these. Would you know that you cannot walk all the way to that horizon? Would you understand that the horizon will continue to move away from you as you approach it? Just some random thoughts on a Thursday afternoon. When you look around the world do you find yourself amazed at all the things you think you understand only because the people who lived long before you figured it out? People who were patient and observant; people who were tenacious with their curiosity. Artists often say we want to make the invisible visible. We want to show the small, overlooked, massive, unbelievable truths that seem hidden. But this realization about how little I know by my own discovery is, in fact, the opposite. I look at a kiwi fruit in the market and think, really? Who thought that could ...
