attention to detail:
not for detail's sake,
but because each detail is a step into the present
where you are.

the painter and the musician take care over each stroke, each note:
each one a step toward holiness.

the creative nature of the present where you are:
participation in;
together with;
the doing thereof . . . . .

and still I am squeamish about this:
the holiness of artistic endeavour,
of any endeavour . . . .
it is not the endeavour itself but the way in which it is endeavoured . . .

today you have been good to me in ways I cannot begin to understand.
can I still not see how my illness has been a blessing?