Sunday, December 13, 2009

River / 1972 -- 23 years old / An ongoing meditation on war and peace at 60 years old

















"River Dreaming Of The Ocean And Sky"
Gouache and watercolor

(page 36)

I can't provide for you no easy answers
Who are you that I should have to lie?
(Bob Dylan lyrics from "When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky" -- 1985)



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Oh night thou was my guide
oh night more loving than the rising sun
Oh night that joined the lover
to the beloved one
transforming each of them into the other
(Lorena McKennitt lyrics from "Dark Night of the Soul.")

2 comments:

The Solitary Walker said...

This spiritual blog-raphy sequence is very fine, am. Coincidentally, I've been intending to use the Loreena McKennitt in my own sequence of posts :)

am said...

Thank you, solitary walker. I've been moved by your December posts in the spirit of the Camino.