Love at First Sight (Chagall and Bella)

What is clear when looking at the paintings of Marc Chagall is that he loved his wife, Bella. Even when her back is toward him, he will twist her head backwards in some of the paintings, as if to say, I never want to lose sight of you.
    The fusion of love and art reveals that true love is both an emotional and a physical contemplation. The spirit of their love floats in the air and has wings that take them higher than all buildings on the ground.  There is comfort and companionship with all creatures in nature and those that are fanciful.
   Chagall's paintings of his wife Bella reveal an endless love. Without hearing her voice or even knowing much about her, we see his love for her and feel their inseparable connection.

Marc Chagall rhapsodized, “Her silence is mine. Her eyes, mine. I feel she has known me always, my childhood, my present life, my future; as if she were watching over me, divining my innermost being, though this is the first time I have seen her. I knew this is she, my wife.”
  

"Wedding" - Marc Chagall (1918)

In this portrait of their wedding, we see some heart-winged figure above them (their little daughter, Ida, born in 1916) and on Bella's cheek, a reflection of a human figure, depicting perhaps or foretelling the great artist he would become. 

9/11 Tribute

   Love cannot be buried beneath rubble or destroyed by flames of fire. Love enters into our souls and stays with us beyond all years and lives with us in an eternal embrace. The Japanese writer Haruki Murakami put it this way:
   

              “What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.”

   Love accumulates inside us, growing stronger with every year of remembrance. 

A book to remember a beloved husband, killed in the Twin Towers, called Where You Left Me, is a beautiful tribute to love.

                                 

In a Certain Light, As After Rain
--Carolyn Forche

I can see you descending.
You step just on the toes
of your shoes like a faery,
like horses doing dressage,
touching the earth with only
the fine points of their hooves,
as I dabble with cleaning
solution, Tide for the laundry,
in the house where you left me,
after the rabid rain,
unable to let go of the single bird
singing or the rain-specked world.

Here Comes the Sun

      When you feel the warm sun in the morning, it is the same warmth you get when you are surrounded by love.  That morning sun makes birds sing. That morning sun is a special type of sunlight. It boosts the metabolism.
 According to a Chicago university study, the prime time to bask in the sun is between 8 AM and 12 noon. 

The study found that those who benefited most from the early morning sunlight were those exposed to more than 500 lux. (Lux is a unit of light measurement) To help you understand, the brightest indoor lighting only goes up to 500 lux, while dim indoor lighting can go as low as 150 lux. Sunlight STARTS at 1,000 lux, and increases as the day gets brighter.  

  There is generally a higher amount of blue light (shorter wavelength) in the morning. Blue light has been shown to have the strongest effect on the circadian system and metabolism.

    So look for love at night and in the bright morning sun. With every new day, we experience new light. If we are lucky, our love stays the same and has a brighter effect on us in the sunlight.