Sunset, Wednesday, 3 February 2010

William Theodore Van Doren. Sunset from Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on watercolor block, 16 x 20.

Today God, whoever or whatever that may be, looked out at the world through one deep sapphire blue eye in the clearing clouds above the snowy woods, and one clear topaz brown eye in the pooling river, and I sensed the power in that arc of vision encompass and inform everything that exists, from me and Flint to the dead wood on the trail to the steel and rubber in the hunters’ tree stand.