Dear Near and Far,
It's like an Albert Bierstadt painting, isn't it? I never say that we "are blessed," because that takes away our power to be pouty or joyous, pitiful or cranky, and gives it all to an impersonal (higher?) power. What I say, is that beauty is everywhere, and it is free for the taking. There are delights aplenty out there.
In Chinese painting of long ago, especially of the celebrated Song Dynasty, the artists specialized in landscapes with atmospheric perspective. It looked like this image of the creek bed, and like this.
Atmospheric, or aerial perspective refers to the misty, undefined areas in a painting serving as indicators of distance between objects in the near and far. In other words, we read the mountains in the back as farther away from us because they are softer, blurred, less distinct.
Between now and then, abide in the misty interstices between near and far; there will be more on delight anon.
