The Journey

 Book 1

(written in a modern adaptation of the script of the Phaistos Disc).

  1. View 1. The Journey
  2. View 2. One day you finally knew what you had to do and began
  3. View 3. though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice--
  4. View 4. though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ...
  5. View 5. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But you didn't stop.
  6. View 6. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers
  7. View 7. at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible.
  8. View 8. It was already late enough and a wild night, and the road full of fallen ...
  9. View 9. But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began ...

This book began in August 2008 with random marks from me, Frances Gregory, Diane Estham, Helen Csont and Brenda Luscott. I owe them many thanks for letting me join their "summer camp".

Its main medium is pastel - a rather silly medium for a book - but there I've done it and have to live with the consequences.

The Inspiration and translation:

This book was inspired by the poem

The Journey by Mary Oliver.

You can find it on page 38 of Dream Work published by Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986



Or in New and Selected Poems: Volume One by Mary Oliver published by Beacon Press, 1992

It's definitely worth adding to your library!

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