Ra

I brought myself up on Eastern philosophy without even knowing it until I was 32 years old, I then read some and felt as if I had written it for myself, almost feeling that they had stolen my ideas!!! So maybe there is something universally sane about those wise philosophers of the East? Oh golly now I am setting myself on a pedestal and that was definitely not my intention. But they seem to understand things in a much more direct and natural way, than those religions of the West- to speak generally!!! It was so very exciting to read about, and so multidimensional for the mind, via nature, which as you know is my source of understanding the world. I do so love the idea of their 'god' being a 'way' this 'way' is the Tao (Dao) I so disliked school where I was so shy and therefore easily a target for mobbing, so when the teachers were impossibly rude to me I just looked out of the window to watch the squirrels, and decided that my philosophy of life lay there in nature. No worshipping, no services of praise, no creeds to follow save that of one's own common sense. Aurora Borealis is a wonderful thing, sometimes creating a whole crown of light in swathed fabric-like light to a central ring, unbelievable like magic. We also have Mother of Pearl clouds, when the winds come from the north, from the mountains of the Jotunheimen-Home of the Giants-they meet crystals in the air on certain days, in certain temperatures creating clouds that shine in all colours, I sent you some! I said to someone in the street how wonderful they are and she said she had never looked at the evening sky on her way home from work, always in a hurry, just like your last poem, unwittingly living a pattern without really LIVING at all !!! We understand each other Anna and I am thankful for that, My love again ten thousand times in all the colours of the mother of pearl clouds, Ann. O slo(w)