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The Meaning of Life

The Frame of Meaning

Dominic Kirkham exhorts us to find meaning in the present moment.

Apicture on the wall. Torrential waters cascading over the rocks from a mountain stream. An immense power and energy drawing the viewer into its vortex, across the lichen on the rocks to note each speck of foam, each sparkle of spray which has been transferred from one watery medium to another and now transfixed momentarily in time. Such a picture, now within its own framed constraint, nailed to the living room wall, where hours of curious observation etch each detail on the mind as clearly as each carefully placed note in the crashing arpeggios of some fantastic crescendo. Such is an earliest and most vivid childhood memory.

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