Thanks to my friend, Kate, for sharing this poem that feels right in so many ways.
I’ve been considering how my next collection of work might come together, and it strikes me that this one simple poem might be the framework for an entire project.
Where the lines of the poem are interspersed throughout a book with photographs that are felt rather than thought.
“Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking
into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing—
that the light is everything—that it is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and falling. And I do.”
― Mary Oliver, House of Light