I’ve just heard that John O’Donohue, the great Irish poet/philosopher that I have quoted here so often from his fabulous book on Beauty, The Invisible Embrace, died unexpectedly on January 3rd.
His friend David Whyte has written a beautiful memorial, including a poem he wrote for John.
My sorrow at this loss is beyond words.
Whether or not this intricate pattern of reality (‘e8’) from new scientist Garrett Lisi is indeed a theory of everything, it is certainly beautiful.
The weatherman says it’s going to rain soon; my guy is making sure our garden is prepared and on my walk this morning I saw people busy re-tarring their roofs and cutting those branches precariously situated above power lines. The energy of change is loose in my world and summer’s heat has been chased into memory by the last few days’ crisp breeze.
What’s most fascinating to me about all this, though, is the light, and what is happening to it now that we’re moving into autumn.
If a year were to be superimposed on one day, this season would be the first dawning of sunset, the beginning of twilight; my favorite time of the day. The colors are intensified, and the light soft, almost swollen.
Earlier this year, during the Winter Solstice Dreaming ceremony I did with my dear friends Pele Rouge and FireHawk in the Santa Cruz mountains, I wrote this love poem to Light, which I found the other day and thought I would share with you here.
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