A Sunday playlist: Cottagecore Afternoon Tea
A Sunday watch: The Little Prince (1974) ft. Gene Wilder
I’ve also watched Baby Reindeer, a very heavy show for a Sunday, but I’m a bit speechless at the brilliance of this show’s writing and raw exploration of humanness in the midst of trauma and dissociation, hand in hand with comedy. Richard Gadd, thank you, your vulnerability is so powerful.
“The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands
I drew with The Little Prince in mind
Something I’m thinking about:
I’m thinking about the mustard seed, and this passage in the Bible about it:
“He told them another parable: the kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches. […] For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
I’m thinking about hope, and believing in all that I cannot see. “What’s essential is invisible to the eye.” When life is challenging, despair is easy. Hope, in a way, invites us to move with it, to take its hand. Hope needs us in order for it to be its most powerful, just as much as we need it. I’m thinking about the power that lies in trusting in the goodness of what the universe can offer me. Of where God can take me. That no matter how small my faith in that might be, to choose it, is enough to lead me into the growth of my largest garden.
Something that inspires me:
Flowers painted by American painter Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986).
“Many claims that the images which Georgia O'Keeffe created when painting flowers, was work which was highly sexual, and many went as far as to say it was an erotic art form; but O'Keeffe rejected that theory consistently.” [Source]
I love her use of color, her way of seeing flowers, and the framing of her paintings, building this intimate relationship between the flower and the viewer, at a time when this sort of close up hadn’t been done in painting before.
A quote:
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from a single thing that I wanted to do.
—Georgia O’Keeffe
Until next Sunday,
In case you missed it:
This week—Life lessons from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and “The Little Prince”
Last week—When Spring speaks, what does she say?
Last Sunday Notes—SUNDAY NOTES 032