Miracle
Joanna Robertson says it is the small details that shape our lives. Drinking a coffee in a cafe becomes miraculous when everything observed around it coalesces into the one moment.
Joanna Robertson argues that it's the regular, everyday moments and rituals that make up and frame the fabric of our lives. The details of dress or speech that shape and project an identity. Painters capturing an essence in time, like that of Madame Cezanne in Provence, dressed in blue, hair pulled tautly back into a bun, sitting next to a table with a white cup and saucer, spoon standing upwards in the cup. Or the myriad details, from by-passers to snippets of conversations to the design of a chair or cafe interior, which, when well observed, can turn the instant of taking the first sip of a milky coffee in that same cafe to the level of a miracle, where all surroundings coalesce into one, soul-sweetening moment.
Written and presented by Joanna Robertson
Series Producer: Arlene Gregorius
Series Editor: Penny Murphy
Sound engineer: Nigel Appleton
Production Coordinator: Janet Staples
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