Coffee With Clark: Land of Enchantment

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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

The colors of enchantment

Ghost Ranch in New Mexico--Georgia O'Keefe country. The colors and landscapes of enchantment.
Everywhere you turn there are dramatic landscapes and colors to spur the imagination. Ancient geology of millions of years on full display, always changing under the ever-fluid light of the vast sky.

Meditation

Just out the window, black silhouettes of trees remind me of those halcyon days with you, when we climbed out of the cellar toward enlightenment. Now, at a glance, the wild birds swing into view, obscuring the real world of young men dying to get home, and the snow that falls on our brains stays solid - never melting into springtime. On the ferry, we sit and compare notes as to whom in life has suffered the most; men, women, boys, or girls? Suddenly, in a revelation, you say it is the Buddha over on Main, who sits on his plywood altar, surrounded by plastic flowers, subjected to all the passersby, who have never had a Zen thought of their own… --K. Lawson Gilbert

Coffee Grounds

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

The colors of enchantment