Being shown the most amazing things
Went to a talk given by Karen Maezen Miller recently. She was telling a story about a local (Houston) woman - a beyond-rich art patron who commissioned Mark Rothko to create paintings for the chapel in which we were gathered. On her deathbed years ago, as the story goes, drifting in and out of consciousness with her family gathered around, she said at one point, "I am being shown the most amazing things." Presumably, images from the course of her life were floating through her mind. But Maezen passed this along to us as a sort of motto, to look at everyday life with this feeling that we are being shown the most amazing things. I keep replaying this line in my head. I am being shown the most amazing things.
