Alone

If you look you may spot the solitary figure in the painting.  One from Saturday night when I was feeling sad.  It's a Mediterranean fishing village in the foothills of Mount Etna which is erupting.  

The watercolour paints are iridescent so appear monochrome until viewed from an angle.  See extra.

This is from a book recommendation from one of the ladies from The Mindful Life:  

Tasting True Liberation


Everyone we cherish will, someday, get sick and die.  If we do not practice the meditation on emptiness, when those things happen, we will be overwhelmed.  Concentration on emptiness is a way of staying in touch with life as it is, but it has to be practiced and not just talked about.  We observe our body and see all the causes and conditions that have brought it to be - our parents, our country, the air, and even future generations.  We go beyond time and space, me and mine, and taste true liberation.  Emptiness is a door of liberation when we penetrate it deeply, and we realise interdependent coarising and the interning nature of everything that is. 


Thich Nhat Hanh, Your True Home