Wen Redmond: Howard's Knob, NC

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Howard's Knob, NC

can you

fall in

love

with a

mountain?

3 comments:

Roberta Warshaw said...: Why not. Marsden Hartley did.; March 14, 2013 at 9:30 AM
Wen said...: yes- agreed- another example..
Pedernal 1942
Georgia O'Keeffe; March 14, 2013 at 10:03 AM
Connie in Alabama said...: Love that place too! My husband's family has a cabin off of Howard's Creek Road; the place is rebuilt so that it is very much like the original, which was a 2 room schoolhouse with a tin roof. We can see Howard Knob from there. We were just there 3 weeks ago. You need to go back in the summer, when the blackberries are ripe.; March 14, 2013 at 2:20 PM

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Kahlil Gibran

A spiritual awakening is often found and developed in a wilderness. It can be a poem or a parable of a deep forest, a mountain meadow or a cactus-studded desert. The outdoor spirit of plein air refreshes and further enables the indoor studio chapel. Each new creative beginning is a confirmation of the simple truth of taking care. And while it may all appear to be self-indulgent and isolating, every thought, every stroke, every caress of the brush adds a small refreshment of meaning and purpose to our universe. "Work is love made visible."

Poem by Mary Oliver

Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who made the morning

and spread it over the fields

and into the faces of the tulips

and the nodding morning glories,

and into the windows of, even, the

miserable and the crotchety –

best preacher that ever was,

dear star, that just happens

to be where you are in the universe

to keep us from ever-darkness,

to ease us with warm touching,

to hold us in the great hands of light –

good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day

in happiness, in kindness.