Re: prayers would be much appreciated
- From: Di <zinkydi@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:59:08 -0400
In article <200f7fc8-afce-493e-9a59-506a1f0eb5c1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
lavenderhouse3812@xxxxxxxxx says...
I sure can see you going nuts in a city. And, I know exactly what you mean.
In search of the Great, and greatly missed Johnie. Oh wait.... he lives in NM.
Boy, do I wish........
--
Di
zinkadoodle at gmail dot comwww.dustydogdigital.com
Well Johnie is an asset (definitely Arizona though-he lives in Oracle
right outside of Tuscon) but it is more than that....I love open
spaces and spectacular beauty. I love living in a place where I own
the night sky-oh I forgot-the coyotes and i own the night sky! I love
walking out my door in the morning and knowing that the land I will
soon be seeing is not subtle. It just insists in a way know only to
toddlers and red rock mountains that I look at IT. I love the fact
that the desert smells of sage and rain and that every single cycle is
in my face-sunset, sunrise, lunar waxing and waining, solstices and
equinoxes. I never for one minute forget the Mother and Father-the
earth and the sky. I love paying tribute to the earth-there is such a
mutual respect that comes when your land can take your life during the
summer months if you do not pay attention and I always pay
attention....I love watching the lightening come streaking across the
sky for miles and miles and then watching the clouds open up and just
pour...I love that in two hours it will be sunny again....mostly I
love night, something central coast Californians know nothing about.
It is cold for us at night-the rare night when it is warm is just
stunning....I love counting shooting stars....I love the drama that
can only come in the desert. I love that I not only write poetry in
the desert but I almost speak poetry. I love that the spirits of the
old ones still live there. It is a photographer's dream, a writer's
muse and a dreamer's song....
m
For me, it's the ocean. I love the sound of the waves, the smell of the sea,
the shorebirds feeding their young and fighting for juxtaposition as the waves
come in. I love the white sand with the purple garnet patches that feel like
talc between your toes. I love the beach peas, beach grass, beach heather, the
hollies and pines. I love the singing song birds, and the chattering
woodpeckers.
I've never spent any time in a desert, be it high or low, but I have visited
some desert environments for short times. Albuquerque has an almost foreign
feel to my eastern blood. It's rocky, dry and subltly beautiful. I spent a
few hours in Petroglyphs National Monument, climbed to the top of the steep
trail, and looked around at a gorgeous view. The top was a sacred place for
the Native Americans, and I could see why. I took images, but found it
impossible to capture that beauty. It was boldy graphic and stunning there,
but also very subtle and small. Some don't know if the rocks are truly sacred
works, or instead merely ancient grafitti. Either way, they depict a culture
long gone, and thet saddened me somewhat. Where did they go? Why? Did
Europeans drive them off?
Same for the Grand Canyon and its surroundings. There was a great culture
there, and now it's totally gone, having left mere traces and cryptic messages
of its presence. The west is an acient place. The east is more green, more
ocean, more ephemeral. The ocean has only stories, some wrecked ships that
poke out of the sand at times, but nothing of a native culture. I think the
native Americans knew to keep their main dwellings off a barrier island.
Barrier islands come and go. It's only since the arrogant white settlers with
lots of money and the desire to kill every whale that passed by decided to
settle and make this place "permanent". Now, we fight a political battle
trying to maintain a naturally shifting shoreline while houses and their
inhabitants fight to stabilize, and in my opinion, ruin what was once so
beautiful about his place. Sure, the communities are fun. But, it's a very
selfish, very self serving, very arrogant, and very uneducated fun. But, with
big money burning holes in your pockets, you can afford to be arrogant and
selfish. I cannot. I'm just a government hump, a working stiff, trying to
maintain some kind of balance between these competing interestes, Man and
Nature. I've been doing it my entire career, the last 18 years iwth the park
service, and it's wearing me down to a nub.
Geez, Melinda, you really got me started. Just know that if you're ever out
this way, and if you ever need a place to stay, my door is always open to you.
Always. As for Johnie, now that you mention Tuscon, I remember that he'd said
that. For some reason, I was thinking Taos. I sure wish he'd pop into ASA for
a visit. Wouldn't that be something?
--
Di
zinkadoodle at gmail dot com
www.dustydogdigital.com
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