Alex Logsdail, international director of Lisson Gallery, remembers the first
time his father encountered Carmen Herrera's work.
Not exact matches
We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan
encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a
father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical
time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).
Boys who grow up without a
father in the home are five
times more likely to commit a crime and
encounter the justice system.
Fathers want to spend more
time caring for children and
encounter obstructions.
I had a suspicion that Malcolm might be Robbie's
father because of the
timing of Annie's
encounter with Malcolm (without a condom) and Jonathan (a condom that broke or slipped).
As if within her, beneath the span of her own days, there are other hunts going on continuously, giant elk in flight from the pursuit of hunters other than herself, and the birth of other mountains being plotted and planned — other mountains rising, then, and still more mountains vanishing into distant seas — and that even more improbable than her
encountering that one giant elk, on her first hunt, was the path, the wandering line, that brought her to her
father in the first place, that delivered her to him and had made him hers and she his — the improbability and yet the certainty that would place the two of them in each other's lives, tiny against the backdrop of the world and tinier still against the mountains of
time.
They were
encountering some challenging
times; the
father suffers from ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, and they were moving to Ottawa to a home that required many modifications to accommodate his physical handicaps.
I'm grateful for your
encounter — it's
times like that the The
Father reveals his touch on our life — when at
times it may have slipped by us.