Everything is Illuminated

The content you’re looking for is no longer here. We’re finally beginning to shut this blog down, to remove old content.

We’ve chosen to start with essays that are available elsewhere. Specifically, this article has been edited into our book, Sacred Coffee: A “Homesteader’s” Paradigm. The book is available in print, as an audiobook, and in several eBook formats. It contains edited, improved, and expanded versions of essays that used to be available for free on this blog, and new material as well. You can learn more about it, and order it here in your preferred format.

 

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2 Responses to Everything is Illuminated

  1. Wayne Jenkins says:

    Dear Mark,

    Thanks for this.
    You might like the writings and musings of David Abram, “The Spell of the Sensuous” and “Becoming Animal”, if you have not already discovered them. Being always immersed in the magic of an ever changing natural world, most of us miss the shifting mountain light, the neighborly stones and talking trees as we move too fast through this day, trapped in our thoughts. Being “lost” in this beautiful world of manifold forms and color, shifting weather and cyclic seasons and all that abounding life is to find ourselves again, right where we are, in the miracle and mystery. Does it get any better than that?

  2. Mark Zeiger says:

    Hi Wayne, thanks for the recommendations! The Spell of the Sensuous sounds somewhat familiar, so I may have read it, but if so, I may need to read it again. I’ll have to look these up.

    And no, it really doesn’t get any better! One of the greatest benefits of moving to the homestead has been our on-going process of reconnecting with Nature in ways that most of our compatriots are denied, or have been taught to ignore, or perhaps have never even been aware of. It’s a sad loss. That’s why so many of my posts deal with the shifting seasons and the like.

    Thanks for visiting the blog!

    Mark

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