[NOTE: This is a short preamble to a video recording of me reading a winter meditation entitled “Open Your Skin” with jazz guitarist Don Latarski. If you’d rather just cut to the chase and watch the video, click here.] These are strange days. In the Northern Hemisphere, Earth turns her face away from Sun like a bashful child overwhelmed by his exuberance. The days become even stranger for humans perched on the precarious edge of northwestern North America, an emerald scythe of land that bristles with conifer needles and cuts relentlessly into the steely heave of the Pacific Ocean. As if we need more reasons to feel small, winter storms regularly make landfall. Rain-washed dawns open like creeping gray container ships. Sepia daylight makes a token appearance, shriveled by the upcoming Solstice and subdued by rainclouds. Around midday, the glisten from spreading water becomes a winter perversion of sunshine. Too soon, always too soon, dusk rushes in from the east, swallowing everything in a flash flood of blackness.
Open Your Skin
Open Your Skin
Open Your Skin
[NOTE: This is a short preamble to a video recording of me reading a winter meditation entitled “Open Your Skin” with jazz guitarist Don Latarski. If you’d rather just cut to the chase and watch the video, click here.] These are strange days. In the Northern Hemisphere, Earth turns her face away from Sun like a bashful child overwhelmed by his exuberance. The days become even stranger for humans perched on the precarious edge of northwestern North America, an emerald scythe of land that bristles with conifer needles and cuts relentlessly into the steely heave of the Pacific Ocean. As if we need more reasons to feel small, winter storms regularly make landfall. Rain-washed dawns open like creeping gray container ships. Sepia daylight makes a token appearance, shriveled by the upcoming Solstice and subdued by rainclouds. Around midday, the glisten from spreading water becomes a winter perversion of sunshine. Too soon, always too soon, dusk rushes in from the east, swallowing everything in a flash flood of blackness.