Walking through the gardens below the castle on my way to work on Friday, the sky was pure azure blue behind the white stone of the towering keep and bridge, and the sun shone through the green leaves of the trees and ivy casting a hazy glow across my eyes.
Two white feathers floated overhead, and a dragonfly dived over my shoulder. One of those moments that was perfectly captured in words in the novel A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood:
“A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. It’s as though it had all just come into existence.
“I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realise that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.”
Do you have these moments?
Do you have these moments?
