●dreaming of a lightness of being, from the reading rilke series
dreaming of a lightness of being, 24x30 in, oil on canvas, 2010 Sharon Kingston SOLD
See the flowers, so faithful to Earth we know their fate because we share it were they to grieve for their wilting that grief would be ours to feel.
There’s lightness in things, only we move forever burdened.Pressing ourselves into everything,obsessed by weight
How strange and devouring our ways must seem to those for whom life is enough.
If you could enter their dreaming and dream with them deeply, you would come back different o a different day, moving so easily from that common depth.
Or maybe just stay there,
they would welcome you,
all those brothers and sisters
tossing in the meadows,
and you would be one of them.
Rainer Maria Rilke
translation by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
