online: 20 june 2011 modified: 19 june 2011 19 june 2011 a golden sunset
Hampstead Heath extension
...unable to resist noting the (universally admired) beauty of a midsummer sunset... half concealed by trees... while the sun is near to its most north-westerly point... the beauty of this scene consists of golden edges to soft blue-grey clouds... becoming more golden as a slow west wind moves more and more of the whole cloudscape into view...
...though more than half resigned from the present culture... yet engrossed in the appearance of what is... he looks within and without (two misleading concepts)... and awaits any signals there may be from reality as a whole and undivided...
...as the sun is sinking behind the rising horizon and earth... and while a church steeple points perpetually but ineffectually to a heaven that has ceased to be above but now is everywhere or nowhere... as was a fallen nature separated from or affixed to the human spirit... he listens to the cry of a bird and human voices moving and talking beyond tall grasses and beneath surrounding trees...
... looking up for a moment from the touch screen he hears and observes a surrounding silence and an emptiness of the whole field before him... and hears a distant barking dog and the diminished traffic sounds of a sunday evening...
...a man who walked past in the dusk is as unknown to me as i am to him... as two unknowns our few seconds of meeting were potentially as significant or insignificant as any... though i barely noticed him before he'd gone...
...in the darkening scene a woman loudly calls her dog who soon appears... reminding the writer that pet-animal-to-person may be as great potentially as is any meeting between people.... especially now that prostheses digital as well as analogue are changing boundaries and invalidating distinctions once revered...
...returning from the reality of nonfiction to that of nightfall he looks again... and lets his thoughts subside or flourish in the minds of self or other who may come across these ordinary words...
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