“Everybody here comes from somewhere.” That’s R.E.M.
“Somewhere is better than anywhere.” That’s Flannery O’Connor via Wendell Berry.
Both these lines come to mind as I consider my association with Dorothy Day Dark. Her feats of attentiveness serve me on a daily basis. I’ve come to depend on them.
What you’re seeing in these images is her work. It’s her series, “Tiny Sacred Things.” The images alone are an answer to Blake’s call to love well by laboring well the minute particulars. In my experience, Dorothy’s always done that. One lovely thing about her “Tiny Sacred Things” is that she invites the beholder and the buyer to undertake that work themselves in their own contexts.
“See? You can do it too,” Jack Kerouac once told a young Allen Ginsberg after he’s just read aloud an attempt at a poem which, in Kerouac’s estimation, was indeed a poem. I see that spirit at work here too.
There’s a lot more to say about Dorothy, but this particular post is occasioned by the fact that she’ll be on hand today (from 10AM to 3PM) at the Sage Refill Market on Wedgewood (in Nashville) to show, sell, and discuss these items with anyone who wanders over. In the past, she’s even accepted commissions, but you’d need to take that up with her.
“There are no unsacred places; There are only sacred places and desecrated places.”
Stay safe, everyone.
I stole your Wendell Berry quote for my latest post. But i guess that ok cause you borrowed it from Him! I heard that the most spiritual thing we do is in the daily observance of a normal day... I messed up that quote a little but I think you get it... kinda similar to seeing the sacreness in things that we normally ignore. Doing the dishes. sacred. making breakfast for kids sacred. walking outside into october air and pine trees blowing. sacred. My last post is about a klansman and a young black man who developed a strong relationship through work and welding. truth, truly, is stranger than fiction as I write down the story. https://fatherofzoomers.substack.com/p/nayran-the-welder?r=jejuu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
keep up the good work David