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The Cape has been a second home to me for over forty years. For almost forty years, I have been an admirer of the artist Karen Rinaldo. Karen is known for her Cape Cod scenes, especially Falmouth. This Friday, Falmouth's newspaper, The Enterprise, did a feature on Karen Rinaldo, which I read with great interest. The writer, Theresa Pease did a good job in creating a picture (pun intended) of this local artist. If you need to reference, it's The Enterprise, Friday, August 2014, Page One A and continued onto Page Three A. The article ended with this paragraph,
"My mother was always deeply involved with what I was doing," the artist said, "and when she lost her sight I found that I could use only words to convey to her what I was working on. But before she died she taught me about another whole vision that she called the inner vision. She told me that when I had a problem, or wanted to recall or create something beautiful, I could shut my eyes and find a path to it. Now, as an artist, I close my eyes and tap into that inner vision almost on a daily basis."
Ms. Rinaldo is talking about meditation. She is doing it without knowing the correct terminology. Although inner vision is apt. Whether one is talking about Buddhist or any Eastern meditation, or Christian contemplation, meditation, centering, lectio divina, etc., the result is a clear path to an answer. Catholics call this grace.
It's the grace of God that leads us. Anyone who spends time alone and centers himself, knows whereof I speak. It's very beneficial and I don't know how people live without it.
I wish Karen Rinaldo would write a book of her meditations. It would be great if she illustrated it, too. She could even call it, Inner Visions. I bet it would exemplify the grace of God.
