Taylor Levy in the CW&T newsletter, “Things Are Different Now”:
When I was a teenager my Dad told me about the time he first saw Michaelangelo’s David. It was hard for him to find words to describe the occasion, but it filled him with awe in a way that was completely outside of anything he had previously experienced. He couldn’t say why or how or pinpoint exactly what made it like this, but knew something was far from usual. When he told me I was probably like yeah yeah, sure whatever. Years later when I saw it myself for the first time, I immediately understood what he attempted to describe. The enormity. And even with warning, I felt utterly unprepared for this indistinct newness. My world shifted. Things are different now.