Naiade oil painting

Naiade oil painting
Nighthawks Hopper
Nude on the Beach
One Moment in Time As they moved into the thick flora, Wicket took the lead. Leia was unsure atfirst, but he shrieked urgently at her and tugged her sleeve. So she relinquishedcontrol to the odd little beast and followed him. She cast her mind adrift for a while, letting her feet carry her nimbly alongamong the gargantuan trees. She was struck, suddenly, not by the smallness of theEwok who guided her, but by her own smallness next to these trees. They were tenthousand years old, some of them, and tall beyond sight. They were temples to thelife-force she championed; they reached out to the rest of the universe. She feltherself part of their greatness, but also dwarfed by it. And lonely. She felt lonely here, in this forest of giants. All her life she'dlived among giants of her own people: her father, the great Senator Organa; hermother, then Minister of Education; her peers and friends, giants all… But these trees. They were like mighty exclamation points, announcing theirown preeminence. They were here! They were older than time! They would behere long after Leia was gone, after the Rebellion, after the Empire…