The Vein of Gold

We have an experience of resonance, of “sounding out” our lives in relation to the physical world.
Hawaiians speak of each of their islands as having a separate tone. My own experience is that each of them has a different vibration, like the after-sound when you have tapped a drumhead. All land has a tone to which we can respond, a note by which we can orient ourselves, like finding our place on a musical scale. In other words, the land has its own song and you will hear it as you walk. Not only that, by learning to hear the land’s song, you will recognize your own life song and learn what creates harmony and dissonance for you.

The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
MARTIN HEIDEGGER

As a culture, we have confused velocity with accomplishment. We “run” ourselves ragged. Convinced that if we just do more and go faster we will succeed, we often lose the pulse of our own lives. We can find it again by walking

The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

We walk into expanded possibility: If you can bear it, the soles of our feet lead us to the feats of our souls.

The song and the land are one.
BRUCE CHATWIN

Theologians speak of “the ground of being” as a synonym for God. I believe that the ground is the being of God, and it speaks to our souls through our soles.

When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.
FREDERICK FRANCK

many of us are too busy and too intellectually self-defended to allow such small gateways for inspiration to gain entrance. Longing for change, we nonetheless avoid the avenues through which it might come to us. We fill our quiet time with business or busy-ness. We do not know how to relax, or even that we should.

is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.
GEORGE F. WILL