Diving deep

Just finished the Brothers Kharamazov episode and wiping the tears from my eyes.

Jacque takes the art of a novel and allows it to summon him and then us to drop over the side of our boat. We watch the symbols and characters and soon we are looking in a mirror.

The connections and the meanings are so profound and makes the literature intensely personal.

To reflect on the Dostoyevsky family history and the novels painful twists is Jacque’s doorway in this case into fatherhood.

And to end it with Billy Joel’s lullaby was a remarkable deep connection that made me want to call my own sons who are now in their thirties no longer at home.

I came back to their bedsides and our nightly routine of reading books and telling stories. So many sweet and some painful memories.

But all good; all well worth letting these reflections catch hold of you too.