Physically? Lake Elsinore, California. Spiritually? A much loftier location. In between here and there, I'm hoping to relocate to Big Bear, a place that feels about halfway to heaven and I'm not talking about the 7000' elevation even though clear skies and elevation combine to make Milky Way more prominent than I've seen elsewhere except desert halfway between Riyahd and Daharan.
Check view from north shore community of Fawnskin, which is surrounded by national forest: http://www.bigbearchamber.com/ At night, lights on ski slopes light up the far shore and give a twinkling reflection off the surface of the lake. Goes well with the stars Round-topped building is solar observatory put there by feds bedause of 300 or so days of sun per year. Fringe benefit is that it's great for photovoltaic panels.
As poetry/ metaphor/ linguistics note, I suppose you've seen the brass plaques that say "One is nearer God's heart in a garden than anyplace else on earth"? Turns out that in original Hebrew script (not the boxy style they brough back from Babylon) the letters are not only sounds but also pictures. Sort of the opposite of ancient Egyptian where the pictographs also turned out to represent sounds. Anyway, if you simply substitute names of pictures for each letter in in a word, you get strong hint of meaning of word. Father (ab) or more commonly Daddy (abba) has only two letter/pictures: a straight line representing stick, rod, or staff (and therefore authority) and an upside-down V shape to represent a tent which as their dwelling place carries connnotation of house or home. Putting them together, the alpha male in a desert family was literally the "authority of the tent" or -- in modern English -- the "head of household." Using the same approach, the word Eden (as in Garden of) comes out as "the heart of God."
If poetry is concentrated meaning and if archetypal truths can be focused down into a few words, the sentence "One is nearer God's heart in a garden than anyplace else on earth" was anticipated by the story in Genesis and qualifies as poetry for several reasons. As with Viv's material, poetry need not rhyme or scan but need only give us a concentrated dose of something we recognize as truth even when we can't explain why.
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PS and OT: One of my two favorite stocks, PWTC, should move well for at least the next 2 or 3 days and could well do amazing things over the next few months.
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