I have read a book by Rachel Naomi Remen entitled, Kitchen Table Wisdom. This is an older book but has a unique perspective on healing that comes from her background as a physician, a professor of medicine, a therapist and a long-term survivor of chronic illness. She invites us to listen from the soul to other's stories. She states in the book, "Life is the ultimate teacher, but it is usually through experience and not scientific research that we discover it's deepest lessons. A certain percentage of those who have survived near death experiences speak of a common insight which afforded a glimpse of life's basic lesson plan. We are all here for a single purpose; to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better. We can do this by losing as well as through winning, by having and by not having, by succeeding or by failing. All we need to do is to show up openhearted for class."
These guys showed up.
As I said before and I will say again: "Marcia makes it look so easy" and yet so much has gone into this painting. Start with the arrangement of the sheep. There are 5 sheep. I see 5 sheep but then I see 2 and 3. 1 and 2 with separation and the other 3 no separation between the 3. The importance of the background and the 5 shades are key to keeping the eye in the painting. Some of the composition may have been planned and some may have been accidential, but whatever---it worked to make a perfect picture.
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