Join the author for a sylvan countryside outing describing Autumn's Now-Present throughout a 24-hour's scrutiny of Nature's changing expression and moods. This essay of imagery and poetry includes captivating B/W sketches that enhance a lyrical portrayal of the Earth Mother, almost romanticized. A sample stanza follows:
Seeking seclusion, I traversed backroads into the backcountry;
my desires set on the hinterland where edifices, like people —
Were preferably few.
Down an unbridled path I hiked, aroused by serendipity;
an escapade underway with sentiments heartened —
My life anew.
The second half of this treatise on Nature relates prose and imagery verses in the format of 7 lines followed by a 3-like reiteration. Thus, the semblance of a conscious voice and an ensuing subconscious response:
Somber stillness breeds silence like a prayer.
A narrow old rickety wooden bridge
creaks and moans under my equivocal steps.
I hurry past the expanse of down-reaching chasm
echoing padded sounds of roaring water's wash.
Anxious lifting footsteps carry me up, UP, UP
through skinny walls of ponderosa, spruce, and fir.
There is meditation only on the movement of the body
and its winded breathing; unity with all that is encountered:
To go, but to expect nothing!
Ergo, a meditative depiction accounting for another 24-hour 'watch' on Nature's changing mood and expression.
From the author's favored passage in the book, the sentiment states: It is a day of such perfect symmetry where everything is in its place. I am Nature's willing consort. The experience that filters through my senses is as it should be. I feel this candor resonates within the heart chakra. Prana, life's vital force as explained in Vedantic philosophy, results as a consequence. I am in awe knowing that I am a part of the fusion of creation that places me in my own time and being-ness. What greater happiness is there with spiritual recognition and revival such as this? I think there is none. Indeed, the more I surrendered to Nature's changing moods, the more I was rejuvenated as though reborn. Being outdoors always affects me this way.
This publication also includes numerous black/white photographs and drawings.
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