Elizabeth Recommends
The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures
A dear friend Mary Eileen Dobson gave me a lovely book as a gift, and she wrote on the flyleaf: To Elizabeth on “one of those days.” Love, Mary Eileen. The book she gave me was The Quiet Eye: A Way of Looking at Pictures by Sylvia Shaw Judson. It’s a tiny book, about 5x7 inches, contains beautiful pictures of art one side and an accompanying quote on the other. Across from a still life by Jean Chardin depicting of a chunk of bread, a bottle and a glass of wine, and a knife, resting on newsprint is this quote from Martin Buber: “One eats in holiness and the table becomes an altar.”
I can’t recommend this little book too highly. It is the perfect book for “one of those days” when things aren’t going well, when we are too hurried, when our spirits cry to settle down.
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