On the night of November 24, 2007, a full moon night, I was out in the central Minnesota forest, near the St. Croix River, living in a tent and preparing food over an open fire with the temperature at 24 degrees above zero. There was a light covering of snow on the ground.
My mind went to the scene some 5000 years ago when the ancestors were under the same full moon. They were led to create a message for the future humans who would come along. And so here we are in 2007 pondering the messages of those glyphs on the silica based quartzite of the Red Rock ridge. This is being written on technology once again using silica but this time in computer chips. Our present writing appears to be ephemeral in comparison to the long lasting glyphs. Perhaps we are overlooking some perspectives as we assume the powers of an electronic communications era. In all events, we share the same time frame as the glyph creators.
The experience of living out doors in northern hemisphere winter time is one way to reduce ourselves to the elemental necessities of being alive. The research continues.
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