The Poetry of Life: Selected Poems to Word the World

This beautifully illustrated book uses pictures with corresponding poems to demonstrate how to "word the world" in a way that will make your life a work of art. Our experience depends on the context in which it occurs, and even more so, on the context of meaning in which we cast it. The word "context" derives from the middle English "con" or together plus "texere" or weaving and it originally meant "the weaving together of words." Our ancestors knew that we live in the world as we describe it, however consciously or unconsciously. The quality of our experience, on a moment-by-moment basis, is embedded in a kind of subtext, composed of our immediate internal dialogue and our unconscious descriptive map of life, that determine what events mean, how they effect us, how we should respond, and, even who we are in relationship to these events. When you elevate the weaving together of words into an art form, you have poetry. I use this art form to turn my moments, my experiences, and my life into a work of art. I use the weaving together of words to set an empowered context for life within which I find meaning, joy, beauty, and wisdom and I endeavor to model this for others, and to teach this to others, in order to elevate lives across the planet. This collection of pictures and poems exposes my love affair with life to the world. I offer it as an invitation to you, dear reader, to take life to heart and word the world in your own beautiful way. As Don Juan, the Toltec mentor to anthropologist Carlos Casteneda, pointed out: the world as you know it is how you describe it. Are we not blessed with the world? I am stunned by the force of beauty conspiring with nature to claim my eyes and fill my heart beyond measure. Perhaps I live in a fool's heaven, but I see the poetry of life and fall for it over and over again.(Excerpt from Fool's Heaven)