Comments on: Tea leaves

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:56:23 +0000

Thanks. Yeah, the pace can seem crazy at times, but I’m a lazy man – I need the discipline.

By: Larry Ayers

Larry Ayers — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:57:38 +0000

We all have dry spells, Dave! What other form of writing demands daily offerings? I liked the differing interpretations of the wind and the wren.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:51:12 +0000

Lucy – I’m glad you liked.

bev – Interesting interpretation of that top photo. I hope people click through to your treefrog post. I found the difference between those two photos quite revelatory.

quiet regular – You refer, I presume, to VAUPE – the Visual Approach to the Unorthodox Pursuit of Enlightenment. Maybe so. Thanks.

Ron – Thanks for stopping by.
Funny how learning something gives its mystery more dimensions.
Yes, exactly!

Nathan – Thanks for the kind words.

Freire said that? He was right on the money, I’d say.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:28:24 +0000

“How to pronounce them, these new letters hidden in the cattails?
The wind has one idea, and the wren another.”

You’re wicked good at this writing stuff, Dave. Thanks for picking me up at the end of the work day.

Paulo Freire wrote about reading the word versus reading the world, and how illiterates read and ponder the world as one would a text, teasing out its ambiguities and its shifting meanings.

By: Ron Sullivan

Ron Sullivan — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:56:12 +0000

When I learned how to read trees’ autobiographies, everything else took a leap into higher relief too, whether I could translate it or not. Funny how learning something gives its mystery more dimensions.

I confess I’ve caught myself trying to read the heiroglyphics of city lighting when I was flying across the continent at night. The boundary between projection and interpretation is nebulous, permeable, and ever-changing.

By: quiet regular

quiet regular — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:38:20 +0000

script in the cattails, I like that, it’s vaupish

By: bev

bev — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:14:33 +0000

Uh-oh. The boards and shingles in the top photo remind me of piano keys, and those electrical wires — the untamed ends of the strings on my guitar.
Very neat photos illustrating this post – especially the cattails which look like they are writing in a flowing script. Indeed, how to pronounce those letters, and what are they saying?
Thanks for mentioning the treefrog post in the smorgasblog. Btw, on seeing shapes and letters in nature, there’s a tree in our woods with a bit of scarred bark that repeatedly tricks me into thinking it’s a treefrog.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:56:43 +0000

Yes, I find I’m drawn to things in nature which make me think of mysterious letters and characters.
I like you leaf litter post very much too.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:58:00 +0000

Quite true.

By: celeste

celeste — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:52:24 +0000

hello! sometimes it’s good to just “read” and know, and not have to make it mean anything beyond what it is–it’s the now when leaves die

:0) Celeste