Days are numbered....
The National Gallery in London is a treasure trove of paintings by some of history's most known and loved artists. Renoir, Monet, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Leonardo: they're all there, within touching distance. And for free. It's delicious to be able to walk upto a masterpeice and feel a shiver go down your spine looking at the rush of colors, seemingly random, but when looked at from afar, they magically fall into place and make delightful sense. The "Making Faces" exhibition was good too. In particular, I liked Rembrandt's "Belshazzar's Feast" . The play of light and shadow, the expression on the faces of the people in the painting was so well done, it's hard to believe that it was a painting and not a computer printout!! Wish I could do even a quarter of that!
Rembrandt's painting reminded me that my days here are numbered too (What does the painting have to do with days being numbered? Click on the link to the painting and find out!!) I'm on my last few days/hours/minutes now. Soon it'll be time to pick up the suitcase and leave. Gatwick airport staff are having a strike the day I'm leaving, so that's a slight worry. I'm going to miss being here with Mr.R. But I'm looking forward to returning home for a couple of things : see my family again, pack up my bags at work and start my adventure with books! For now, I'm just going to start leaving books all over the place thanks to this crazy idea from www.bookcrossing.com . For those of you who haven't yet been to the site, please do so! It's absolutely fabulous! In case you join the site (it's free), you may wish to use me as a referral (screen name on the site : wordsworth1612). Anyway, so that's what I'm going to do. Set some books free.
And when you join bookcrossing.com, find other bookcrossing members at www.meetup.com . I joined the Mumbai bookcrossing group. Promises to be interesting and hopefully fun!
Good bye, England. Good bye,Mr.R. Take care and see you soon!
Mumbai, I'm on my way. (Don't look so scared!) :)
I've just had a patient walk in, your perfect sterotype of the tortured artist, impoverished, living in a garret, depressed. I almost felt like telling him "I'm not going to give you any antidepressants, as it might kill your creativity"! But we had a healthy discussion about art & its finer points. I even told him about the Making Faces exhibition, as he specialises in portraits. Surprisingly, he had not heard of it!
ReplyDeleteWe use the term 2days are numbered" only when a horrible fate awaits us when those days are up. that's hardly true for you, so perhaps your days are just starting? Also, seen another way, days will always have are number, so aren't all days always numbered, no matter what? Hmmmmmm.....
Goodbye, MW. Say hi to Mumbai for us, will you? The city that never sleeps!