Ice Mountain (the so-called "Matterhorn"), Westface—nearly a 1000 m [click photo for next . . . ]
of beautifully vertical Martin Bridge Formation, with its striking
granite-gray to snow-white banded limestones & marbles. (view into Hurricane Valley) . . . Click on the view compass below to
'circumambulate' and see the Matterhorn, or Ice Mountain, from different
vantage points:
CIRCULAR DECEPTION
We shape the world and the world shapes us.
In an ironic twist of meaning, present Western culture, which
is arguably the most fragmented, a-rhythmic, and linear of all
historical world societies, now uses an "it's cyclical" argument
to explain away most every crisis thrown at it. The collapse of the
economy? "It's cyclical." The collapse of icefields? "It's cyclical."
Climate change, species extinction or, indeed, perhaps the
collapse of the biosphere itself? "It's cyclical!" This reply is
repeated over and over again like an old-fashioned vinyl record
stuck in a scratchy groove. On the surface, the idea is that
something has happened before, and now it is just happening
again. Therefore, what's the problem? But deeper, the cyclical
reply is really a thinly-veiled deceptive cover, an excuse so that
we may in good conscience continue our remarkably non-cyclical straight-line lifestyle of force and destruction indefinitely into the
future. Meanwhile, evidence to the contrary—of human-caused,
profound and catastrophic disruptions of countless real natural
cycles—piles up around us like so many broken beer bottles
and stray dogs in towns filled with people too drunk to care,
or who are about to move someplace else.
Let us hope for the best.
TEXTURE OF THE WORLD— on the watercourse way
The way of force and outward mechanical power
always runs in a straight line.
For it, the way of water and the meadow meander
is just a waste of time.
NATURAL STRENGTH?
2 points, a stick;
3 points, a system.
UNLEARNING THE OLD
We shape the world and the world shapes us.
Learning the new is simpler than unlearning the old. To
learn the right things, at the right time, and in the right way,
is the intention which naturally moves to the head of the
class; but it may also be compelled to leave the school
altogether for the freedom of the open field.
RHYTHM & TEMPO?
Rhythm comes from walking; Tempo, from the heartbeat.
