I believe…
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…I am part of where I think I am…
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…because I surround myself…
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…with the environment I want…
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…in order to protect the image…
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…of myself I have made.
“Sure, ’tis a terrible thing to choose one or t’other.”
The Aurally Man
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Alchemy as process has a number of stages.
And nobody seems able to agree on how many!
This might not though be a disagreement of number but of measure.
An hour possesses sixty minutes and three-thousand-six-hundred seconds, after all.
If we make our focus three, we get…
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A point worth considering: all the triangles are of equal size.
Individually this seems obvious but, perhaps, not quite so, relatively.
A shortcoming alluded to in the phrase, ‘vagaries of the human eye’.
Which is another point worth considering.
The human eye follows lines like a moth to flame.
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Mother-Wild has not only the experience
of her forebears and the accepted rules
of the clan to guide her,
she seeks to learn also from
ants, bees, spiders and badgers.
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She studies the family life of the birds.
To her and her child the birds are real people,
who live close to the mysterium.
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The murmuring trees breathe its presence.
The falling waters chant its praise.
– Ohiyesa
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