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Baby Jesus Trail In The Catalina Mountains August 30, 2022.Hummingbird At Feeder #2 August 31, 2022.Capturing The Moment - Hey Guys, It’s Better Over Here! September 1, 2022.Italian Springs Trail Panorama September 3, 2022.Capturing The Moment - Mother & Child September 3, 2022.The girl in the photograph September 3, 2022.Broad-billed Hummingbird September 4, 2022.Camphorweed Blossoms On Mt. Lemmon September 5, 2022.Morning Walk In The Catalina Foothills September 6, 2022.Sycamore Canyon Painting September 7, 2022.Monsoon Weather Has Moved On September 7, 2022.Life has so many gifts that keep on giving. The square root of the eccentric absolute, Hidden in the prism at the rainbow’s foot, It is the alchemy by which we grow.īecoming world. Yes, even this, at last, if we should callĭefrauded? No. In every part we play, we play ourselves īeneath the changing shapes of self and thing, The something borrowed with something chicory blue? Such as the world wears on its wedding day, Tigers of meaning leap? And are these true, Transforms all things to a hoop of flame, where through Of ‘I’s’? Is it the master of the cadence, who What’s true in these, or false? which is the ‘I’ In turn, his reminding me of Conrad Aiken, and the return of The Alchemist, that reminded me of the following from Aiken’s poem, “A Letter from Li Po.” Pale slate-grey clouds whirl up from the sunken sun. The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the east:Īnd lights wink out through the windows, one by one.Ī clamor of frosty sirens mourns at the night. The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light. Just today I received an email from my brother Tom, reminding me of someone I have also not read in recent years, American poet, Conrad Aiken, which my poem “ Solstice Night,” told him of the first lines from Aiken’s long poem, “The House of Dust.” The Alchemist is the gift that keeps on giving.

I’m pleased to be reading this inspiring book ten years out. Once again, the concept of alchemy is front stage, this time from a different perspective, which will create many new learning moments. The book fits well into my own philosophy and sets the tone for the trip and remains instrumental in my life.Īgain, one act leads to another when, at this past Sunday’s Society of the 5 th Cave reading club meeting, The Alchemist was selected for the March reading. It was in preparation for leading a group of four young professionals to the state of Sáo Paulo in Brazil that I learned of Paulo Coelho and his 1988 novel. It was ten years ago that I first read Coelho’s enchanting fable. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”

Paulo Coelho wrote in his bestseller, The Alchemist, “There is only one way to learn,” the alchemist answered. My vessel is an alchemy of acts from which new opportunities are poured – acts attract acts. Even so, it’s important not to think about what may have been left behind. If we don’t act on the moments, each will become an opportunity lost. The more we act, the more opportunities we have upon which to act, the more we connect, creating a vessel filled with learning moments. The things that happen to us in life do so because we act.

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