what is bigger than quantum

that is what Mary asked just now. moment by moment. when i was out painting a little canvas, sitting on the patio this past sunday, it was only very gradually that the anxiety of picking up a brush and mixing paint after a 30 year hiatus, eased into enjoying the process with no eye squinting ahead to see a result. questions kept coming up. how do i get this green to be brighter? what am i seeing beyond the tree branch? it took an hour to do the first exercise and then i put all the paints away and set the little landscape on the shelf. fifteen minutes later i got it all out again and tried another painting, sitting in the patio. in some moments, i forgot to ask any questions or think about what i was doing. so that's the ticket as they say. so now there are two little paintings sitting on the shelf giving me ideas. again, how could i make the green brighter but not too white? can you see in the painting of the house where you were trying to get an effect and missed out? daunting questions.