Circination, by Steve Wing
An essay of mine about meditation, plants, and "porous borders," called "Conversations Between Kingdoms" , has just been published in BluePrintReview's "microcosmos" edition, along with the beautiful photograph shown here by Steve Wing, whose work we've published often in qarrtsiluni... I'm so pleased to have my work included in this issue, conceived and skillfully edited by the multi-talented Dorothee Lang, who lives and writes from Germany. Thank you, Dorothee!
It's then that I notice the fern just outside the window. It's an interrupted fern, one of Herm's favorites - he used to jokingly call them Fernus interruptus - and perfect in its newness, the fruiting bodies on the stem not yet dried, the fronds above and below them light delicate green. I search the woods nearby but it's the only one I can see. We look at each other...
Tears in my eyes, Beth. I loved it.
Posted by: Kim | May 28, 2010 at 03:10 PM
I found your essay, in part, at African Alchemy. Your writing in the essay moved me to tears, to think and to remember the wonder of life. There is perfection among the sadness and pain. There is singular beauty if we pause to observe what is before us. There is both joy and pain in memory of those we have lost. We must allow the pain and joy to mingle.
Beautiful writing.
Posted by: magnolia | May 29, 2010 at 10:07 AM
ha ha ha. I thought it's a tarsier. LOL
Posted by: wench wear | May 29, 2010 at 01:01 PM
Kia ora Beth,
For some reason when I read your essay I printed it out rather than read it on screen. I took it to my own room where the window looks out upon our own unruly green gardens and bush, where the light in late afternoon upon it can take my breath away. And I read this. A very connected moment, kia ora my friend. Kia kaha.
Aroha,
Robb
Posted by: Robb | May 30, 2010 at 06:41 PM
Lovely.
Posted by: dale | May 31, 2010 at 04:37 PM