accidents of light and shadow

pigeons on wabash avenue

the three questions

what is real?

who am i?

how should i live?

mono no aware: mist, branches, morning sun

sacred grove

there are places in the forest where the illusion of space and time is so thin that it seems one might step into the real world without even trying

perhaps not trying is the key

answer to Job

existence and delay

Relentless necessity, wretchedness, distress, the crushing burdens of poverty and of labour which wears us out, cruelty, torture, violent death, constraint, disease -- all these constitute divine love. It is God who in love withdraws from us so that we can love him. But if we were exposed to the direct radiance of his love, without the protection of space, of time and of matter, we should be evaporated like water in the sun; there would not be enough "I" in us to make it possible to surrender the "I" for love's sake. Necessity is the screen set between God and us so that we can be. It is for us to pierce through the screen so that we cease to be.
--Simone Weil
Gravity and Grace

and in the margin of weil's text, the woman i love has written: 

there would be no delay,

no existence