Sunday Focus: The Meditative

Photo by Meg Boscov

[Editor’s Note: This ongoing Sunday feature pairs photographs from Meg Boscov with a thought (or two) from the managing editor about focusing on tiny things to find something significant. Click on the picture itself to view at full size.]

 

 

As a kid, Sunday mornings meant the color comic strips in the Patriot News, Casey Kasem’s countdown on WKBO, Sunday school at The Unitarian Church in Harrisburg, Pee-Wee football games with the West Shore Vikings—and then, later, Charles Kuralt. Now, it’s the stillness of Sunday that I seek out, the meditative, the om.

 

“We live in an old chaos of the sun,” writes Wallace Stevens in “Sunday Morning.” “Or old dependency of day and night, / Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, / Of that wide water, inescapable.” We live surrounded by the natural world, isolated. Perhaps in the moments like the one captured above, we feel the knitting that connects us to Nature. In writing fiction, it is often through action that characters reach their hard-earned epiphanies. Can one, in the very short story, find that insight through stillness? Think about something that only occurs on a Sunday. Think of stillness. Think of the moment as something to be read. What does it say? That’s what this Sunday asks of you.

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Meg Boscov is a photographer who lives and works outside of Philadelphia where she continues to pursue her careers in animal-assisted education and dog training. She can be reached on instagram at megboscov.

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