......................................................................................................................................................... "The earth is our home—we have no other—yet we do not feel at home in it. Alterations have to be made." Y-F Tuan, "Strangers and Strangeness." Geographical Review, January 1986. There are homes with no walls, no roof, no electricity, no internet connection. Here one's reveries are brightened as if by votive candles lighting a cathedral that has been under construction for millions of years. Are we dwelling in the nave of a numinous copse concealed in a poem? On the path's verge, A dead field mouse Is ready to be eaten. After the postmodernist surge had run its course, modernism had survived, and artists resumed the pursuit of their masterpiece. Not to make it, as every creation is ultimately a failure; but to pursue it as if tracking prey that's invisible except for its tracks, and they are nothing like anything seen before. Suddenly I see that I've aged! Some somatic systems have become rabid in their mission, others are slowly wearing down. While many of my contemporaries are burnishing the biography of their youth, I will try to live by the myth that awoke as me this morning. "It sometimes feels as if there's a new shape of the Sacred that is trying to be born." But this time, no "rough beast slouches towards what the finished work would look like. The work emerged from a region which could not be penetrated by consciousness. This approach to the production of the work of art is most significant, and may explain, in large part, what gives Giacometti’s work its enormous emotional power. His hands modeled a quivering, tremulous unknown Bethlehem." What may be human, animal, plant, mineral or fish blends into a single shadow. What kind of riddle is this? ......................................................................................................................................................... It sometimes feels: D. Abram, "The Environmental Crisis and the Psyche: A Conversation with David Abram and Patricia Damery." Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. Winter 2013. rough beast. W.B. Yeats. From, "The Second Coming." what the finished work: C. Juliet, Giacometti. New York, 1986.