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The Knowable Point of Love

11/11/2019

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The Knowable Point of Love
​"The Knowable Point of Love" - mixed media on panel, 18 x 24.  Ready to hang, (hanging groove on the back)  or can be framed.  Available here and at Artfinder.

"One thinks of the smallness of human hands, of how soon they weary and of how little time is granted to their activity." RAINER MARIA RILKE

I've been pondering hands.

Makers of things, writers of words.  Gentle comforters, dramatic actors.  Mine are a bit gnarled and generally covered in paint.  They tell a story.

Hands can give and take away.  Lift up or hold down.  Push or pull.  And when we place our own hands in the hands of another, worlds are joined and oceans of distance crossed.

"...the knowable point of love is always the hand that helps another up."  MARK NEPO
Nepo, in his way with the most delicious of phrases, brings us to the very point when love is knowable.  

"We're all born with a depth of heart that only unchecked love and care can open.  We become of utmost use when we act on this opening of the heart.  Once we act, we start to live a life that is tender and resilient." (Nepo)    

​We act when we offer our hand, but also when we accept a hand offered, hold it closely and allow our hearts to open.  The reward - a tender and resilient life - can you imagine?   I am heading in that direction. It is the right way to go.
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Dotty Seiter link
11/11/2019 11:00:05 am

Synchrony: More than once in the past few days I've tapped into and pondered the many ways that non physical 'things' like love, joy, depression, confusion, spirit become KNOWABLE points through our senses. I clicked on your painting and scrolled in every direction, basking in knowing your hand at work with paint and brush on panel—held rapt with wonder!

I also reached out and took the hand of this sweet gal—such a small and radiantly warm hand interlaced with mine : )

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jen
11/11/2019 11:05:18 am

Dotty!!!!!!! I got goose-bumps reading your comment. Whoa. That is SOME SYNCHRONICITY! Obscure, abstract - and in synch. Wow.

Thank you for taking her hand - you gave me happy tears there! xo

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Carl Stoveland
11/11/2019 12:52:23 pm

The simplest answer is an unqualified yes!! Guard down and barricades asunder. Love and the goodness of the universe are only fully appreciated when we are open to it. Nepo got this right and so eloquently.

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jen
11/11/2019 01:11:00 pm

Carl - yes! Nepo speaks your language. "Barricades asunder" - love that. :)

Christopher R.
11/12/2019 05:54:13 pm

I can imagine dear painter.

A gracious hand was offered to me in another life and it still, to this moment holds me up.
I like the direction that your wee lass is headed, it is a path with heart .... that leads home.
C'mere little one.

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jen
11/12/2019 08:06:41 pm

Christopher!!! Your comment touches my heart. Thank you for your connection with this wee lass, and for understanding the enormous impact of hands offered and lives (and hearts) thus changed. xo

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Carol Edan link
11/15/2019 01:51:30 am

Thank you sweet one for comforting hand!

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jen
11/15/2019 10:21:21 am

Carol! Big hugs. xo

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