(seen in the Library News, p. 25)

Paths in space, in time, and from person to person, make the web of life. Often our paths are mechanical and dull, as dictated by the needs of survival. We cross ours with those of anonymous others, without anything remarkable happening. But occasionally, we reach a "station", with which we associate emotions and feelings. Those are special moments in our lives, in which our being comes into focus better than ever. We mark them in our memory and keep going over them, over and over again.

Our lives take place in the perennial cycle of the seasons, at which Nature is always at work. We look around often without paying attention to what we see. But sometimes, slivers of an image stick and become buried in our memory, perhaps without us being aware, only to re-emerge unexpectedly later, after the season is over.

--Gustavo Corelli

[ Gustavo Corelli has an exhibit at the Saskatoon Public Library from October 6 - November 6]