It's where the light gets in

Acrylic on canvas.

36x36"

“There is a crack, a crack, in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen

Where we heal from being broken leaves beautiful scars that make us stronger. This universal thought on pain and resilience has been with us for a long time, in the 13th century Rumi is quoted as saying “The wound is where the light enters.”

This idea has been echoed down through the ages by such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ernest Hemingway, but I think that the finest example is this one by our own Leonard Cohen.