Flying Toward a Slice of the Night by L. Gruger
“Once you have tasted flight,
you will forever walk the earth with your eyes
turned skyward, for there you have been,
and there you will always long to return.”
– Leonardo de Vinci
I’ve decided I’m not going to do the “An Artist’s Day Notes” on Fridays anymore. Time for change. Maybe I will pick it up again at a later date. Instead on Friday’s I’m going to pick a quote that I like and put it to an art image. These posts will be called “Art and Words”. I won’t always be using my art, I may find other’s art that inspires me to go with the quote.
Hope you enjoy the Art and Words posts.
But what’s odd is this – once we know how to fly, if we are human, we will never be up that we won’t yearn to be down. And never down that we won’t yearn to be up. I long for a moment, when I fly, and I love it, and there is a moment of complete, unalloyed joy.
Gravity has its charms – we build houses there, and put love in them.
Yes, I agree, that is so true. I love what you wrote about gravity!
Do you know the writer Brian Andreas? I love the things he writes. What you wrote reminded me of his quote, “For a long time she flew, only when she thought no one else was watching.”
Yours would go like this, “For a long time she flew, longing for the moment of complete, unalloyed joy.”
See http://www.storypeople.com
oh lindy! this is beautiful nightflight for one’s heart! just lovely…