Sunday, September 5, 2010

Life’s Unquiet Dream


Life’s Unquiet Dream

“Thy light alone... gives grace and truth to life’s unquiet dream”
     ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”

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I lost my creative rhythm toward the end of this summer.  In mid- 
August I somehow fell out of sync with the regular activity of my 
own life.

Not even our annual canoe trip to the Boundary Waters could bring 
me around.  The photos I wanted to take, among other things, 
seemed just beyond my reach.

It took me the better part of a month to recognize my predicament, 
and then some patience before life’s cadence began to reveal itself 
again.  Up north over the Labor Day weekend, Beauty offered this 
glimpse into the heart of it all.

~ Hal

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