online: 15 october 2010 modified: 13, 14, 15 october 2010 12 october 2010 towards the sun
from landscaped garden at Kenwood (continued)
...another sunny day... clear sky... almost no wind... people in pullovers walk slowly by... my thoughts are not flowing well in this landscaped garden... so i set off walking directly towards the sun... still visible above beyond or between the planted trees... to the west...
...this direction immediately led me along ways i'd not have walked... crossing regular paths and climbing a slope in shadow until the sun appeared beyond a tall fence with razor wire and then with spikes at which i turned south west... keeping as close as i could to sun and fence...
...that led me through unfrequented corners of the heath... and to the hockey field where i can sit to write of this unexpected solar walk ... which i hope may take me to a spot from which the sunset can be seen over West London and beyond towards Wales and the Atlantic...
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...yes here i am at a spot from which the sunset can be seen over a distant horizon... the sun path having brought me through forest and across a road full of traffic that bisects the heath... and then to the high wall of a mansion where i had to walk eastward to get round it...
...from then on i could not follow the sun directly but turned north-east to reach this spot...
...and here i am in the sunshine... cold wind from the north east... from here i see short sections of a distant ridge on which is Harrow... and the arc of steel that rises above the new stadium at Wembly...
...though it's the sun i came to see today... not human artefacts...
...i get another glimpse of the sunset from a bus going west... blue-grey clouds above pale yellowish sky... and sun obscured by mist... and houses with stepped rooftops down the hill... and many tv aerials... blind to sunlight but sensitive to frequencies that carry other signals too directive... for freedom of mind...
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