Interlaken, Switzerland, in the Hohematte, looking East
Inspirational mountains…settled by humans longer than the written record…
Nevertheless the human landmark for more than eight hundred years in this inspirational landscape is a tribute to God. This piece of land and the human shelters built there still, today in 2013, remind all of the human existential questions that stir in the landscape…mysteries to solve.
27Aug2013, The 23 Club Beta 03 has been released.
Beta 03 includes:
1) A reformatting of endnotes into page notes,
2) An addition of two episodes as part of the consolidation of characters and plot,
3) A partial reinstatement of the detailed table of contents, and,
4) Proofreading corrections.
The 23 Club is literary fiction. It is a landscape story, novella length, 50,000 words. It takes place in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, the Empty Quarter. It is about people and plants in a strange landscape.
This is a link to The 23 Club Beta 03 pdf file.
This is a link to a six minute trailer that will give you a taste of the flavors and content.
Please comment and let me know if you like it. Let me know if you understand what is a landscape story. Thanks.
What makes it all fit together?
What is the magic? How do the parts fit together? The clues are in this image. The challenge might be: how do you get a healthy maturity in a young garden? Healthy maturity = feeling like it belongs, and, has belonged.
Isn’t it curious that the loss of a tree in a park, Gezi Park, and rumors of a new shopping center erupted into a huge series of protests in Istanbul?
Not surprising if you ask the question:
How many of us, city dwellers, have safe and easy walks to inspirational gardens and landscapes?
People can only live so long in cities without refreshing and inspirational gardens and landscapes…then they erupt. People erupt due to a fundamental imbalance in their living conditions. Fix your city, fix your neighborhood, before the eruption.
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Strong flowers, strong stems, strong support, improves with age and careful pruning, surprises with fragrance, overwhelms with beauty…like a good story.
