Purpose Bound— At Principle Gallery
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!
–Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1836)
I came across the passage above from Dickens and thought it matched up well with the painting at the top. It was that idea of being transported home that made the connection for me. In the Dickens piece the transport comes in the form of memory sending one to their youthful home during holidays past. In the painting, it is the lure of home and the idea of once again being with those who they love that inspires haste in the journey.
I’m adding a tune from Yo-Yo Ma and Friends, A Christmas Jig / Mouth of the Tobique Reel. It is off his Songs of Joy & Peace album. I can imagine hearing this music playing as the boat glides homeward on the waves.
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