For me, the most clear answer to "what matters?" is given when Lily sits on the lawn frustrated, searching for the problem that evades her. "Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time . . ." (194). Though she doesn't entirely realize what is going on, Lily somehow knows within herself the importance of lending strong focus to everything that happens to her. The feeling that she is knowing things for the first time and, somehow, simultaneously the last gives her reason to appreciate her experiences, pay attention to them. When we really engage with our lives and experiences; this is when we find the glimpses, the clarifying moments. And thus, this is what leads her to finally finish her painting.
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