This couple I know have an anniversary coming up. They live close by, and for the occasion, as a gift, I would like to give them something I made.
I have a lot of ideas. None of them any good. Ideas present themselves, like suitors with pink roses, and each one seems so right until it doesn’t.
It’s easy to fall in love, even with an idea. Johannes Kepler fell in love with the idea that planets travel in a perfect, circular path.
The planetary path is an ellipsis; truth prevailed, but Kepler's heart was broken.
Andrew Wyeth fell in love with an idea he could paint the wind, and he did; “Wind from the Sea” depicts the inside view of an open attic window, as the wind blows a tattered lace curtain into the room.
Wyeth said it was a portrait of his neighbor and friend, Christina Olsen. Stricken with polio as a child, Christina lost the use of her legs. “Wind from the Sea…