More Than a Rock

61The Wonderful Lightness of Being

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded.

We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.

—Milan Kundera

Every so often I receive inquiries from high school students charged with writing about an artist of their choice. It warms my heart to know that even at that early age some already have an appreciation for beauty and art. My own high school experiences are, for the most part, best relegated to the dusty attic of unimportant trivia. Of course, they did not seem that way at the time, but with the advantage of hindsight these experiences are ...