‘The earth is a manuscript, being written and unwritten every day’.
John Stokes
The responses to this quote by the participants took my breath away. People wrote, among other things, about
Everything is a track. Everything around us displays the marks of the passage of time. Every physical, psychological and emotional influence is recorded. The tracks of tears down the face of an ageing woman. The tracks that human beings make on the earth. The tracks that our words leave behind in the hearts of others. The movement of wind and rain carves out patterns in the rock. The patterns of emotion in the human being, over time, bend and mould and shape the muscle and bone of our physical body. Even those things that we call ‘inanimate objects’ are museums of movement, energy fixed in time and space.
There are stories everywhere. I will learn to see them more clearly. And from that melting pot of myth and fable, I will create new stories, new tracks.