Melina is a girl after my own heart - an adventuresome, winsome storyteller with a nice flare for sarcasm, good alcohol, and living life with her eyes wide open.
Melina is friends with a lovely lady named Nici, who writes Dig This Chick from her home in big sky country Montana.
Nici's husband Andy is, among other things, a painter. He painted this:
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| Copyright: Andy Cline |
From the beginning, my eye was involuntarily drawn to this painting's portrayal of the night sky. To the inky blue bordering on blackness, broken only by pinpricks of stars. Then down towards the warm, glowing cedar shingled home. And back towards the night sky.
The deer? They add the extra little something that makes the painting pop.
But I can't get over the pulsing strength of the house against that night sky. I want to walk silently up the walkway to those four steps, to climb the stairs to the small windows.
To peer out the windows, glass of Malbec in hand, and plumb the depths of that big night sky.
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Maybe this painting resonates so strongly because my last several evening runs have found me under the weight of the same kind of sky. So vast and immense and heavy with the years, decades, centuries, eons of time preceding me; so impenetrable and dense with the seconds, minutes, hours, and years of the unknowable future to come after me.
That there, in that present moment, under that weighty sky, I am just a ponytailed runner trodding a familiar circuit, seeing familiar stars.
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