When
autumn starts my garden is predominantly green and I wait for the
purple of the monkshood that grows and blooms in the same place every
year. The first flowers opened a few days ago, and enjoying the
beautiful colour and shape, I remembered something I read in David
Abram's "The spell of the sensuous". Here it is alongside the flower,
the quotes in the text are from Merleau-Ponty's "Phenomenology of
Perception": "As I contemplate the blue of the sky ... I abandon myself in
it and plunge into this mystery, it 'thinks itself within me,' I am the
sky itself as it is drawn together and unified, and as it begins to
exist for itself; my consciousness is saturated with this limitless blue
...".
Read "flower" for "sky" and "purple" for blue.
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