Painting by Vanessa Bell of her sister, Virginia Woolf.
image courtesy of National Gallery of Austraila
For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of--to think; well, not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others. Although she continued to knit, and sat upright, it was thus that she felt herself; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures. When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.excerpt from Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
i feel this way often
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http://jacquidodds.blogspot.com/2008/08/charleston-artists-home-and-garden.html
http://jacquidodds.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
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Jacqui, I visited both links. So beautiful and interesting. Thank you!
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