Hi Samantha! Unsurprisingly you offered this reader words and concepts to enliven my brain! I might also say, “Fiddle Sticks” as I failed to find a source for Garry’s book, “Ben Dorain, a conversation with a mountain” either with the link you offered or on Amazon. Not an exhaustive search I must confess. A non-Amazon search comes next. Last, your list of other books to consider is appreciated and a couple hold promise for winter reading here in Florida. Lastly, best wishes for safe travel and conviviality on your trip to Ireland for the awards ceremony where your latest painting is an entrant. A bit of a homecoming for you? “Break a leg” is probably not offered to painters wherever they may go.
Hello Gary, I'm not sure if the book is available in the US as it hasn't been published there, so you might have to have it shipped unfortunately! I see it's available on Abebooks secondhand, which might offset the shipping cost a bit! I'm not going to Ireland though...just Edinburgh, for an exhibition, no awards ceremony :-) I hope you've been OK where you are in Florida?
Hello back Samantha! Surely I’m a geographically challenged sort. Starting when I read The Clearing I misplaced you in Ireland. A quick glance at a map could have put that silliness to rest in short order. So I’m grateful for your nudge today from sorting out your actual destination and purpose from my mythological supposing. A look at a full definition of “mythology” just now suggested that it’s not uncommon for mythological characters to be part of the genre. At least that part seems quite accurate.
Two back to back hurricanes, and a record number of tornadoes with the second has produced damage-both from winds as well as catastrophic flooding-that may take years to repair, if at all. Interstate highways that pass through the southern Appalachian Mountains were washed out along with major bridges and railways. That this has arisen due to global warming is still under dispute. Sourcing funds to perform the work, with the US debt load at ≈ thirty-three trillion $ and growing, puts these events as silent witnesses before the jury of time. A writer’s description of what he saw reads “muddy, frothing waters strewn with mangled timbers” and strikes me as a departure from your recent remarks about water representing expanses of time. Deep time? I should take better notes.
Last, Sam, thanks for suggesting Abebooks as a possible source.
Hi Samantha! Unsurprisingly you offered this reader words and concepts to enliven my brain! I might also say, “Fiddle Sticks” as I failed to find a source for Garry’s book, “Ben Dorain, a conversation with a mountain” either with the link you offered or on Amazon. Not an exhaustive search I must confess. A non-Amazon search comes next. Last, your list of other books to consider is appreciated and a couple hold promise for winter reading here in Florida. Lastly, best wishes for safe travel and conviviality on your trip to Ireland for the awards ceremony where your latest painting is an entrant. A bit of a homecoming for you? “Break a leg” is probably not offered to painters wherever they may go.
Hello Gary, I'm not sure if the book is available in the US as it hasn't been published there, so you might have to have it shipped unfortunately! I see it's available on Abebooks secondhand, which might offset the shipping cost a bit! I'm not going to Ireland though...just Edinburgh, for an exhibition, no awards ceremony :-) I hope you've been OK where you are in Florida?
Hello back Samantha! Surely I’m a geographically challenged sort. Starting when I read The Clearing I misplaced you in Ireland. A quick glance at a map could have put that silliness to rest in short order. So I’m grateful for your nudge today from sorting out your actual destination and purpose from my mythological supposing. A look at a full definition of “mythology” just now suggested that it’s not uncommon for mythological characters to be part of the genre. At least that part seems quite accurate.
Two back to back hurricanes, and a record number of tornadoes with the second has produced damage-both from winds as well as catastrophic flooding-that may take years to repair, if at all. Interstate highways that pass through the southern Appalachian Mountains were washed out along with major bridges and railways. That this has arisen due to global warming is still under dispute. Sourcing funds to perform the work, with the US debt load at ≈ thirty-three trillion $ and growing, puts these events as silent witnesses before the jury of time. A writer’s description of what he saw reads “muddy, frothing waters strewn with mangled timbers” and strikes me as a departure from your recent remarks about water representing expanses of time. Deep time? I should take better notes.
Last, Sam, thanks for suggesting Abebooks as a possible source.