Claude Monet | Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (Sunlight) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org)
Fourth Sister – 10/26/20
…of course being the bright, intelligent, and sophisticated traveler that she was, she understood and appreciated how sunlight and even moonlight, changes the view, the perceptions even…the moods and feelings of people, even of inanimate objects large and small, those one must take many steps back to see, and those one can hold in the hand, turning its shape, capturing the bright or the dim light in many ways – making the world a living kaleidoscope, some turning to the will and touch of the hand, others like the cathedral across the square from the expensive hotel room, a marvelous place to sit or lounge and drink in the beauty changing with the hours and…oh, nice…carefully paired with just the right wine and cheese and fruit for the time of day…not her pairings, but that of the chef…she assumed…but, overall it did not change very much, for her view, a few floors up from the ignorant average tourist…was the same essentially of the uneducated and…oh, she still hears Professor Rait castigating her views, insisting education only educates on the angle of the brushstroke, and not on the capacity of the soul of another to see and behold and appreciate beauty… They always mocked and made fun of her…Professora Ratty…but then why does she still send her now old professor postcards from her travels, after all these years, and send her wine and cheese, and why does she cherish those notes she sends to thank her for her gifts and thoughtfulness over all these years? Well, because she didn’t leave her an educated prig over all these years, no, but she touched her soul and used art and love to do that…yes…to Professor Rait…and she raised her paired wine to her art professor…loved and admired…the wine not really that good…but that is life…
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