Maryanne Grant Traylen

RING OF DOWNS (eBook, ePUB)

The North Downs' Eastern Ring

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

RING OF DOWNS

The North Downs' Eastern Ring as a Mandala

A ring of Downs echoed through the valleys and on the scarps above, singing of nature's life: the voices of our minds and hearts in harmony with wind and earth and air and fire, a patterned circle these create in pictures of ourselves.

Ring of Downs, sequel to A Dog on the Downs, again explores the countryside through evocative images and 'landscape-triggered prose', but this time describing that part of Kent's Downs where the North Downs' Way splits to go northeast through Canterbury and southeast through the Folkestone Downs. As much as this route forms an imperfect circular shape upon the land, so too have I read it to reflect a spiritual 'mandala' which Tibetans and Jungians regard as a symbol of wholeness. Here the inner, imaginative parts of ourselves are in correspondence with outer nature, that precious resource in need of nurture, right upon our doorsteps, wherever we might be.

This is a book written by a woman walking her dog in the countryside and along the coast near her home, featuring descriptions and reflections in poems, prose and photography, concentrating particularly on how the aesthetic nurtured by nature nurtures the mind. It is also a call to understand how the physicality of 'earth' in platonic thinking largely correspondent with the feminine, has been relegated to positions inferior to superior 'spirit', regarded as masculine - as if there were a division between the two - and how these attitudes more than ever need redressing.

Ring of Downs is to be followed by Flights of Nature and Light of Land.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Leaf Light Publications
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781739795214
• Artikelnr.: 63576354