| About the Book
Meditations on the walking trails at the Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New
Mexico
This is essentially a book of reflections on particular ways of
seeing things on the three walking trails at the Ghost Ranch in
Abiquiu, New Mexico. This very popular site is often referred to as
Georgia O’Keefe country. The three main components are deadwood,
rocks, and desert flowers. A photo that becomes the catalyst for
creative reflection accompanies each component text. As the author
points out, walking trails, holistically speaking, are the occasions
for physical exercise, emotional release, esthetic activity,
intellectual operation, and spiritual excursion. The author uses his
own experiences with fine arts and his teaching of the humanities to
delve into poetic excursions of the without and the within. He employs
the word “soul” to mean the creative power in all of us, potential as
well as active. Reader participants in this venture of the walking
trails are invited to follow the author at every step of the way in
order to discover their own creative soul and thereby learn to seek
and fathom the within of things. |