It's funny how three months compresses itself to a period of time you feel you could fit into the shell of a hazelnut, and after what I thought would be weeks and weeks, I found the feeling of leaving sweeping over me like the break of a wave, as I sat under a sunset sky in Desaru.
“And in this he showed me a little thing, the quantity of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, as it seemed. And it was as round as any ball. I looked upon it with the eye of my understanding, and thought, ‘What may this be?’ And it was answered generally thus, ‘It is all that is made.’ I marveled how it might last, for I thought it might suddenly have fallen to nothing for littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasts and ever shall, for God loves it. And so have all things their beginning by the love of God.
In this little thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it. The second that God loves it. And the third, that God keeps it.”
― Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
Wave ebbs, curtain draws back, second year.
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