When I was small, I loved Amahl and the Night Visitors, the opera by Gian Carlo Menotti that was featured on television every year during the Christmas season.
I guess you can tell I'm excited to have access to all this world-class art now that I'm in the Twin Cities. I'm sort of bubbling over. Also.....art is an antidote to the 24/7 media assault. It unfolds on another planet.
There are so many levels.....the religious, the commercial, the familial, the culinary. And that's just the beginning. Each level has its own story line. Navigate is a good word to describe working through the rough waters of it.
What a wonderful weaving of thoughts into a coherent whole. This essay is the very art you speak of.
Epiphany is, and has always been, a very important holiday for me. Raised with the religious significance and moving towards the metaphorical as I aged. I’m impressed by your experience snd understanding of it. Every single year I encounter Christian after Christian after Christian who complains about “keeping Christ in Christmas “ and bristles after my Happy Holidays greeting, who does not know about Epiphany. It makes me crazy. Events themselves mean nothing until we bring understanding to them. Until the light of wisdom shines through the darkness of our ignorance. Epiphany is an essential aspect of Christmas. Metaphorically speaking, to celebrate on the 25th and not also on the 6th is a huge part of our country’s current problem. Masses who eschew knowledge and close themselves to the powerful transformation of epiphanies. And perhaps, as the art shows, this has always been a problem. We will always be humans on the threshold of the numinous. The bush burns, the star shines, and some of us will always walk by unaware.
Thank you for the deeper levels of thought today. 🙏
I guess you can tell I'm excited to have access to all this world-class art now that I'm in the Twin Cities. I'm sort of bubbling over. Also.....art is an antidote to the 24/7 media assault. It unfolds on another planet.
I think the commercial onslaught is the hardest part for me.
In the crudest way of explaining, I’ve never been able to figure out how to navigate Christmas, me being Jewish.
There are so many levels.....the religious, the commercial, the familial, the culinary. And that's just the beginning. Each level has its own story line. Navigate is a good word to describe working through the rough waters of it.
What a wonderful weaving of thoughts into a coherent whole. This essay is the very art you speak of.
Epiphany is, and has always been, a very important holiday for me. Raised with the religious significance and moving towards the metaphorical as I aged. I’m impressed by your experience snd understanding of it. Every single year I encounter Christian after Christian after Christian who complains about “keeping Christ in Christmas “ and bristles after my Happy Holidays greeting, who does not know about Epiphany. It makes me crazy. Events themselves mean nothing until we bring understanding to them. Until the light of wisdom shines through the darkness of our ignorance. Epiphany is an essential aspect of Christmas. Metaphorically speaking, to celebrate on the 25th and not also on the 6th is a huge part of our country’s current problem. Masses who eschew knowledge and close themselves to the powerful transformation of epiphanies. And perhaps, as the art shows, this has always been a problem. We will always be humans on the threshold of the numinous. The bush burns, the star shines, and some of us will always walk by unaware.
Thank you for the deeper levels of thought today. 🙏
Wow. Just wow. A tour de force!