Gazing into these wind worn crevices, one is drawn deeply into the ancient heart of this boulder.
There is something utterly and unrepentantly animate about this stone.
It is sentient, alive and profoundly connected to all within the landscape.
There is movement here too. Slow slow movement measured in millennia.
From the winnowing of its crystalline surface by the great Levante to the gradual settling within its bower of earth, it shapeshifts through the ecology.
It is clear that the rock reaches out to me as much as I reach toward it. There is a two way reciprocity.
The same can be said for the connection between feet and the ground or skin and the air.
Imagine the possibilities of these innumerable interactions that are happening right now throughout the biosphere.
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Photo: Sandstone boulder at Saladaviciosa. Courtesy of the author.
