Hi,
I would like to share a beautiful moment. It was when I was in Harborfront Park at Port Jefferson here in Stony Brook. I was taking a nice walk with a Emily who is also my neighbour and as we moved past this sculpture, I was bewitched by its beauty.
I was trying to make sense of what I saw when she spoke," Oh, that is a sculpture of a skeleton of a boat and it is carried by four men, probably shipmen."
And as I agreed to what she observed I realized that I interpreted something else in that sculpture.
I began to say to her," Yeah, actually I think that this reminds me of the Hindu tradition when a person dies and four people carry his deceased body on their shoulders, and somehow the body is very much like the boat or the ship which had carried the soul when the person was alive, but now it is more of a skeleton of boat."
And we both smiled at that, myself at my sudden observation and she at the symbolism.
I would like to share a beautiful moment. It was when I was in Harborfront Park at Port Jefferson here in Stony Brook. I was taking a nice walk with a Emily who is also my neighbour and as we moved past this sculpture, I was bewitched by its beauty.
I was trying to make sense of what I saw when she spoke," Oh, that is a sculpture of a skeleton of a boat and it is carried by four men, probably shipmen."
And as I agreed to what she observed I realized that I interpreted something else in that sculpture.
I began to say to her," Yeah, actually I think that this reminds me of the Hindu tradition when a person dies and four people carry his deceased body on their shoulders, and somehow the body is very much like the boat or the ship which had carried the soul when the person was alive, but now it is more of a skeleton of boat."
And we both smiled at that, myself at my sudden observation and she at the symbolism.
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