feel flows

“I believe that each of us internalizes a landscape composite of myths and stories, and we carry that psychological terrain within us as we make our way through the world, whether we are facing that green divan that Anna Akhmatova slept on in Saint Petersburg or gazing out at Stone Mountain in Georgia, an overlay by which the future is often colored and through which it is often perceived. However, like Lillian Smith—“Miss Lil”—some of us attempt to refashion that inherited landscape through consciousness. That is, we attempt to bring ourselves to an awareness of what has shaped us. Since landscape is both regional and emotional, I learned to meditate on everything around me, people and nature.”

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

“Delicious was the sensation I experienced as I laid down on the spare-bed & resigned myself to the Luxury of twilight & Solitude.”

“Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. The cogs miss, the wheels turn, and lives interlace too early or too late.”