Astonishing

Maybe Marion does not view his relationship with the divine as a matter of belief in God. That relationship is more an acknowledgment of love–and love, even ‘love in a simple way’, is more astonishing than faith.

Goenawan Mohamad

January 4, 2021

THERE was a painter who painted birds. She remembered from childhood a pair of larks that used to perch on an apple tree beside her house. She could hear their song among other chirping. There was nothing extraordinary. But this particular time, when she searched for the right color among all the oil paints she had to paint the bird’s feathers, suddenly it was as though she was seeing for the very first time the strange brown streaks a

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