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Moon Phase =just past half | Weather = wonderful...sunny | Current books =Daybreak - Mary SummerRain
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Quote: "The Universe is a big place. If we're the only ones it, well...that just seems like an awful waste of space."
- from the movie, Contact
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September 1, 1998
Today has been an incredible day. I don't even know if I can put it in words.
I went back to Defeated Creek today. The plan (don't ya just love 'em?) was to go and sit by the water; sketch and write. I nearly had the place to myself - a few campers off in the campsites and the workers were mowing the grass when I got there so I made a slight detour - I walked down the Bearwaller Gap trail a bit. It was so wonderful to be out among the wild ones. I heard squirrels scampering through the leaf litter on the ground; crows patrolling and yelling at everything, the wind in the trees...I found a seat on one of the limestone outcroppings just past the trailhead as if it had been carved out just for me to sit on. I sat there and sketched a while. The limestone has weathered in interesting patterns in places - the place where I sat and a small window in another outcropping for example.
I did make over to the bench by the water...and sat there for all of maybe fifteen minutes. A little yellow, fuzzy catepillar made itself comfortable on my hand as I tried to sketch. I ended up put the catepillar on a bush and going back to the trail.
The hills surrounding Defeated have always reminded me of something that either belongs on another planet or perhaps ancient pyramids that have been covered over by time, whose only clue to their true nature is their triangular shape. It's not so evident from waterside, but if you go up to the overlook...it's incredible. Last time I was there, the full moon had just risen about fifteen minutes before. To see the oh-so-familiar moon rising over such an alien landscape...
Add to the mix my brand new addition to the all time favorite movie list. (Can you guess what it is?) I finally got to see Contact. I read the book years ago...but the movie...it was one of the few that actually was as good as the book. As soon as it was over I immediately went out to look at the sky...a few stars could be seen but the moon outshone most of them.
I have felt such a sense of...wonder today. It is as if my eyes have been opened to Mother Earth's beauty for the first time in a long time. The movie instilled almost the same feeling - except I keep adding my own commentary every now and then especially when I could see the metaphysical concepts in there. (meta - or met - : prefix...2.) change, transformation 3.) more comprehensive, transcending {metapsychology} - used with the name of a discipline to designate a new but related discipline designed to deal critically with the original one.) Sometimes, I wonder if Carl Sagan was a closet Pagan and the skeptic was just a cover...lol.
I look back over what I've written and it doesn't even start to impart what I feel. I can only qoute the movie again: "They should've sent a poet - I have no words."
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