The New Year

I did not make any resolutions this year. May 2011 bring healing and discovery, music and poetry, adventures and wisdom, above all may the New Year bring peace.

I would like to share this wonderful passage written by Roberta Smith and published in the New York Times on December 31, 2010.

“Paintings like poetry or music,
are essential nutrients that help
people sustain healthy lives.
They’re not recreational pleasures
or sidelines. They are tools that
help us grasp the diversity of the
world and its history, and explore
the emotional capacities with which
we navigate that world.

They illuminate, they humble, they
nurture, they inspire. They teach
us to use our eyes and to know
ourselves by knowing others.”