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2006 Calendar/Poem
It has long been my habit to write a poem near the end of each year. In the past, I’ve sent it out to my e-mail lists and to others online or used it instead of a holiday card. This year the poem needed a photograph. In digging through the last year’s photos of Mt. Shasta, I realized that the poem needed not just one but a full dozen photographs. It became a calendar, fully illustrated. I thought about putting the illustrated poem here, yet I strongly feel it’s a print item, not an online item.
This is the cover photo, taken in early December through my bedroom window, showing the aspenglow at sunset that turns the snow shades of pink. Some of the mountain is hidden by the clouds, and some is in shadow below the pink of the aspenglow.
The poem doesn’t rhyme, doesn’t have meter, but it feels to me like poetry, not like prose. It’s called I Am a Mountain, and this is how it begins:
I am a mountain, part of the diverse world of souls
upon this earth, connected to each through the web
of love that nurtures the hope and heals the pain we
bring and allow into our lives and the lives of others.
We may never see that web, but it enfolds us and we
spread it, even if inadvertently....
If you’d like a postcard of the poem over a (muted) full-color photograph, e-mail me your name and address, and I’ll send it to you.
If you’d like the calendar, already snapped up by a couple of gift shops (to my happy surprise, as I hadn’t thought of that possibility), you can mail me a money order (made out to Chas Ridley, sent to PO Box 1290, Mt. Shasta, CA 96067) or use one of the PayPal links below. The calendar comes in two sizes: 8.5 by 11 inches ($12.95) and 4.675 by 6.5 inches ($5.95). For hanging on a wall, the larger size is better, but the smaller size works very nicely on a desk or table.
To order the large calendar, click here:
To order the small calendar, click here:
Whether you order the calendar or not, I wish you a fabulous 2006.
Chas
January 2006
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