8×10″ pastels on paper
June 14, 2012
Inspired by the following passage from George MacDonald’s Lilith:
“I did not open my mouth, for I was afraid of frightening them, and sure I should learn more by listening than by asking questions. For I understood nearly all they said–at which I was not surprised: to understand is not more wonderful than to love….
But the little people were constantly doing and saying things that pleased, often things that surprised me. Every day I grew more loath to leave them. While I was at work, they would keep coming and going, amusing and delighting me, and taking all the misery, and much of the weariness out of my monotonous toil. Very soon I loved them more than I can tell.”