18×14in Oil Study from life

"When I was thirty, I traveled to London for the first time to visit a friend in grad school. I immediately felt history in old buildings and streets. My second day there, we took the Underground from Victoria Station. As our train arrived, I realized that the space between the platform and the train was much greater than in the States. I looked at the edge of the platform. And there, etched in the concrete, was the phrase, "Mind the Gap." The phrase instantly seemed an instruction from the gods.
Mind the gap between stillness and motion. Mind the gap between who we are and who we hope to be. Mind the gap between what's visible and what's not. Mind the gap between the inner life and the outer life. The phrase has stayed with me ever since- for our search for meaning depends on how we mind the gap and how we enter the spaces between things. While a tree is all leaves, the life of the tree is the spaces filled with the wind between the leaves. And while we are the sum of our actions and words, the life of who we are is in the spaces filled with Spirit between our actions and words."
Mark Nepo

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