Luminous-ground

High Places

Living in a state defined by its Green Mountains--Ver  Mont--we Vermonters rub shoulders with the rounded Adirondacks to the west and the jagged White Mountains on the east.

If you travel farther north and east you come upon Maine’s massive granite Mt. Katahdin guarded by what the Penobscots call Pomola, a weather spirit, a creature with the body of a man, the wings of an eagle and the head of a bull moose.

A Place in the Cosmos

I was recently invited to view a lovely collection of photos a friend of a friend took recently while she was in West Africa. One of Ann Schunior's photos show how the Dogon people still live. These beautiful huts most likely follow an ancestral design that's been embedded in their culture for thousands of years.

See how precisely those reeds are placed.

How perfectly the tops fit.

And how very carefully placed their homes are within the cliff-terrain near the Niger River in the Mali Republic.