What a great story Stephen, as well as a unique birthday present. I also
like the idea about the foxes eyes being open. I've heard there has been a
surge in the mountain lion encounters in that part of the country. Sounds
dangerous, but I would like to see one someday...from a reasonable distance!
- Peter
On 2/6/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > <http://www.cgi7.com/peterimages/fox.htm>
> I like the direction of this one, Peter, as if you have entered a new
> dimension, among the bardos(?).
> I am wondering if you would get more of a charge out of the piece if the
> Fox's eyes were open - (and in that sense open both the worlds of the
> living
> and those of the dead.
>
> Last week, on my birthday no less, I was hiking with a friend in the Marin
> Headlands, just a bit north of the Golden Gate Bridge. About 50 yards from
> us, near the top of a small craggy slope just off our trail, I notice a
> couple of ancient ceramic pot handle shapes emerging from a mound in the
> rock. The shape did not look unfamiliar to me. (I had walked by there many
> times before).
> Then I realized it was a set of furry ears atop the lined face of a fully
> mature lion. We kept walking parallel to him on the trail, his head lifted
> and eyes tracking the profile of our movements until we disappeared.
>
> The intensity of the lion's gaze was wonderful charge, indeed, totally
> electrifying. A birthday gift for sure.
>
> Maybe that's why I thought it might be a charge to take on the fox's
> simultaneous gaze into both worlds.
>
> Stephen V
>
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