Shadow
A recent obituary about the children’s book illustrator Tasha Tudor offered one of her favorite quotations:
The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.
—Fra. Giovanni Giocondo
Gloom often haunts me, and it has been present over the past months. The quotation appeals to me because it makes wonder if that shadow of gloom is a literal curtain that can be pulled away. Finding the string that manipulates the curtain—that’s the trick.
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