Pain

... A woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain."
And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

(Kahlil Gibran)

The same shell again ... well it is a nice one! I enjoyed having a play with the editing, and I quite fancy having this blown up for my bathroom wall. I've had a bit of a life-long obsession with shells. They don't seem to make very jolly metaphors in literature, though!

(Back-blipped 22 April 2013)