“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

Pablo Picasso

Every day I keep my eyes open for something exceptional. Sometimes I see it but cannot get to my camera (like a couple of weeks ago, driving into Raleigh from the south as the sun was setting, the city right in front of me laid out like a picture postcard). Sometimes there is wonder at every turn.

Saturday afternoon it was just a moment, walking through the Calvary church cemetery; it was the light, the vista, the proportions, the way Howard Memorial peers out from behind the trees. It was just a moment, but I was paying attention.

The other – below – was taken a few minutes earlier in the room that will become my new writing sanctuary. Max has already figured out that the windows are just the right height for watching the world go by. The afternoon light in that room is perfection, with tall windows on three walls facing east, north and south.

Max is tracking something, maybe the cat across the street. Rebekah is tracking Max. I am tracking the light.

Always tracking the light. Today, Sunday morning, there will be light and to spare over at the church. Come and see – DEREK

What came into being
    through the Word was life,
    and the life was the light for all people.
 The light shines in the darkness,
    and the darkness doesn’t extinguish the light. – John 1:4-5