'if'... Thoughts, wrote Nietzsche, are shadows of our feelings: always darker, emptier, and simpler than these. And the written word, it strikes me, is but a shadow of our thoughts.
. . . back . . . time at drum, canyon & willow rock . . . watching a boy/child become a man . . . a son transforms . . .
walk the trails & imagine the past while living the future ride the river & feel the strong current faithfully tend the fire & listen to embers of memory smoke in the eyes stand tall with the lodgepole pine reaching forever give thanks
Proust wrote: "The only true voyage of discovery, the only really rejuvenating experience would not be to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees."
"In everyday life 'if' is an evasion, in the theatre 'if' is the truth. In everyday life 'if' is a fiction, in the theatre 'if' is an experiment." Peter Brook -- The Empty Space