Yet Monet was more than haystacks. He painted a number of pastoral scenes, deeply impressionistic reworkings of the French countryside, masterpieces of the subtley of light and color. They shine with joy, a joy of happiness, a joy of the very essence of the sublime.
And in so doing, we capture the heart of who we, and the world, most are. Although we are indeed rational beings, we are also, in our deepest essence, beings of passion, creatures of viscerality and pathos. So do we embrace the world, so do we embrace its hiddenness, the powerfully ordered transcendence that ripples through it.
We thank Monet for this insight, that amidst our dogged attempts to understand life rationally, perhaps we do better to grasp it as it most fully is: the passionate rendering of a profoundly passionate creator.
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