Thanks for this thoughtful comment, Ben. And also, for putting the “The Gold Lily” and “Mother and Child” on my radar—they hadn’t been before. I agree that “Mother and Child” evokes a sort some kind of sort of intergenerational project in the way you describe—“it is your turn to address it.” It seems related to the thing I was trying to talk about at the end of the post—e.g., Gluck asking for some kind of directness and intensity of engagement with life.
Thanks for this thoughtful comment, Ben. And also, for putting the “The Gold Lily” and “Mother and Child” on my radar—they hadn’t been before. I agree that “Mother and Child” evokes a sort some kind of sort of intergenerational project in the way you describe—“it is your turn to address it.” It seems related to the thing I was trying to talk about at the end of the post—e.g., Gluck asking for some kind of directness and intensity of engagement with life.