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Welcome! This is a place to share how we celebrate & deepen our relationship to Nature. Here you will find stories, images, & ideas about wilderness, human nature, & soulfulness. Drawing from the experiences of everyday living, the topics on this blog include: forays into the natural world, the writing life, community service, meditation, creativity, grief & loss, inspiration, & whatever else emerges from these. I invite you on this exploration of the wild within & outside of us: the inner/outer landscape.



Friday, July 12, 2024

What’s in a Sunset?

Fire and water in balance, in communion: 

flames and waves in equal measure. 

 

It is a painting, or a mantra, a prayer or jubilant ecstasy.

 

Sometimes it is the desperate sign of toxins in the atmosphere. 

 

It arrives in patterns, like a carefully woven textile.


On other evenings the sun sets in indecipherable codes, a language known only to mystics and poets, or to the unordained citizen who courageously listens in humility, with honesty, with the admission of non-omniscience and the openheartedness of a babe. 

 

A sunset is the best impromptu art piece 

but on some evenings it is a body of work or a movie in motion, apparently different masters rapidly at work in the heavens. 

 

Existing here is memory or reverie, hope or faith, a closing down and an opening in paradoxical simultaneity. 

 

It is a song and dance or the vast sigh of grief, 

a collage.quilt.montage.potpourri.anthology.medley.ecotone. 

 

The blazingliquidshift oozes and burns its way overhead, deepening at the horizon into a palpable beating heart. 

 

An organism alive and yet capable of stillness, it reflects back a perfect mirror of all things innerlandscapey. 

 

It is the expansive certitude of crepuscle and a night to follow, with the spiraling temporal motion offering its return.again.soon.

 

Blessed.

Glad.

Euphoric.

Paradisiacal.

Rapturous.

 

Felicityofsunset.