More specifically concerning: wilderness
out and about
27 July 2013, around 7.03.
oneirodynia
15 July 2017, around 13.32.
The forest is full of noises: the young squirrels clucking and monitoring us, in relay, from the trees; the strange creaking groan, like the slow opening of a door, of the forest settling; then, as we descended, the distant notes of an amateur cornet (or flute) in uncertain melody. No bears or other large mammals […]
mistook
12 August 2017, around 12.00.
A view (51)
26 November 2020, around 9.46.
Autumn afternoon, Zigzag.
gathering
8 August 2024, around 16.13.
You watch the light turn yellow, not from newly hung curtains, but from smoke some two or three mountain ridges away; not enough particulates to make a Jacob’s ladder but enough to carry the echo of a scent. You read the daily reports, to see where lightning has struck, though acts of god and man […]
verdant
4 June 2025, around 11.03.
imposition
21 July 2025, around 14.58.
But there are acts of a different kind to this when the outer crust gets broken by the inner self breaking through at a moment of tension and you get what may be called a free act. Such acts are of rare occurrence. It is only at moments of tension and crisis that we choose […]
lookout outlook
16 August 2026, around 11.36.
It is not easy to put the right interpretation on Spinoza’s desire for independence. He wished to think and to live nothing other than the truth […] He was not concerned with his own person. This man, who was so entirely himself, was without self-seeking. He was free from pride and violence and seemed never […]