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.