Inquiry Into Gifts

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title: Emily at Three

Another portrait of Emily.

One of the issues that seems to be a constant in my art and life is the question of what is holy. It is good to read the author, Annie Dillard's way of approaching those questions.

I do not want to give up the possibility of approaching the sublime, that feeling when beauty or awe move you deeply. And I think I could set Emily up in that way, maybe as the Indigo Bunting, the miraculous gift,
maybe the gift we miss. I think that would be legitimate.

But I actually think that she is really a grackle,
just like I am.

Still somehow God is here and uses grackles like us to do holy work.

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