I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.

Brothers Karamazov, 1880.  Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian

 

 

Untitled, 1964, oil on canvas.

  Kazuo Shiraga, 1924-2008, Japanese.   MOMA, NY

 

 

The translated word is not the passive perception: “that is to be alive”

but the potentially active: “that is living”.

Breathing, watching, hearing, feeling the warmth, touching, sensing, moving, acting, interacting. Always thanking.