This Da’Vinci sketch goes with the last post. I tried to get this up for the last post but had technical difficulties. This is a sketch of the land around where he grew up (Vinci, Italy). This could be the setting for the dark cave he peered into.I’ve been thinking more about how that quote from the last post resonates with me. I’m on an eternal quest for truth. In the dark cave, there is truth. There is much truth that is unrevealed to me. Do I want to go in that dark cave and see what’s there?! It’s so intriguing–I must know! But I’m scared. I don’t know what waits for me in there. Will it ruin me?

“Having wandered for some distance among the overhanging rocks, I came to the mouth of a huge cavern before which for a time I remained stupefied…my back bent to an arch, my left hand clutching my knee, while with the right I shaded my eyes; and I bent first one way and then another in order to see whether I could make out anything inside, though this was almost impossible because of the intense darkness within. And after remaining there for a time, suddenly there were awakened in me two emotions, fear and desire: fear of the dark, threatening cavern, and desire to see whether there might be any marvelous thing in it.”–Leonardo Da’Vinci

I acquired this quote in high school from a really marvelous old biography of Da’Vinci. This quote was very significant to me because it so well described feelings that maybe I’d had before: Apprehension of the unknown and longing to know and experience.