Happy birthday siljamus!!!!!!!!

[alexandral]

It came to my attention that yesterday was also the birthday of siljamus!! Happy belated birthday!!!!!!!I hope you had a lovely day full of every wonderful thing!

Something for you behind the cut below, a painting I saw in "Tate Britain" on Tuesday, "Hope" by George Frederic Watts. There is something about it that is in equal parts disturbing and soft and it is "calling" to me in a way that makes me want to drop everything and solve the mystery behind it.

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[savepureness.livejournal.com]

Dear friend -

I'm sorry for brutally interrupting this moment, but I wanted to make sure that you've got that comment of mine, in which I was telling you how happy you've made me by mailing me the DVDs and the most lovely card I've seen recently!

Once again, many, many thanks; sending you kisses and hugs, and if there's something else than words that I can do to thank you, please let me know :)

[himmapaan.livejournal.com]

I'm very fond of G. F. Watts. I wonder if you saw an exhibition of his portraits about a year ago at the National Portrait Gallery?

It is a melancholy painting, isn't it, in spite of what it's symbolising. I much prefer this vision of hope than if it had been simply bright. Hope can indeed be blind, but there is something here too of the kind of weary resignation and submission to uncertainty, which does accompany hope, even if it's almost precisely its antithesis.

[siljamus]

Oh, thank you! (I'm sorry I've only gotten to this now, but I've bare been on-line since my birth day *s*)

That is a very fascinating picture, I have to say. I'm not really familiar with the artist but I've come across the painting before. I gather (from a google-search) that it is one of his signature paintings.

I'm very moved by the fact that you gifted me with Hope for my birthday as I think it is the one thing that I need to hold on to right now.