…“ As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living. Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment”… T.S.Eliot “East Coker”
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Didymus ©️LSAuth2020
Two years ago, I started my website blog, Part I, as a means to reflect and comment on the work that I had been making for over four decades. More emphasis was given to my foundation years. Part II, for the most part, will be musings on my present works and the new surroundings that are informing me.
I am now living in Nashville, Tennessee— the 8th place that I have called “home” since leaving my parents’s house. When we arrived in late October 2019, Nashville was in autumnal glory. For the following months to this present day, I have been walking the streets within a several mile radius of our house, from the downtown cityscape to the lush university grounds of Vanderbilt and Belmont.
It always takes time to absorb a different environment and start a new body of work. Just as in times past, I always have unfinished things to complete while I get over the jolt that moving always brings. I have not lived in the South since college days and so much urban growth has occurred over the decades. But I don’t have to go very far to find the old landscape of mountains, rivers, and trees.
I have forgotten how much I have missed this landscape; its familiarity is comforting, and yet I feel like I need to get reacquainted with all that I have lost touch with, or rather, had seen differently in my youth.
I know I have to start with the trees.