Sometimes when you find a new friend,
it's like a miracle. It's like a new piece of your life shifts, falls
into place and somehow allows you to move more easily in the world.
It's a mitzvah. There are many things that have brought
new friends into my life: art, food, and bees and when all three of
these favourite passions of mine come together it's a case of triple
happiness. So it is with my new friend and
colleague, J. G.
Through her generosity there are new
colours in my life and a new way of seeing the world. OMG, it's
MACRO!!!!!!
I gave her SLR with its macro lens
a twirl today in the afternoon light. Of course, most of my pics were
out of focus, but even the soft photos revealed new things about
flowers I didn't see before. I am falling even more deeply in love
with plants as a result of seeing them from this point of view. It's
the velvety textures, the soft vulnerable sexuality of plants, the
bold drama of nectar guides that I could barely see before. I can
hardly contain my excitement and fear this may create in me a new
form of paraphilia--macro erotica!
Can you see it? Can you feel the love?
I am losing some of the sharpness in my
vision (partly from age, partly from what happened when I gave birth)
so being able to suddenly bump up that capacity feels like a miracle.
It makes me want to eke out every moment of the dying light of a November afternoon,
my face buried deep in the nectaries of flowers and the crevices of
kale.
