SENSORY OVERLOAD

Photo by S. Auberle

Driving at sunset tonight--sensory overload. Vivid, intense gold overlays boiling purple clouds. Now and then the clouds break to reveal a new moon climbing through. Then, in an instant, torrential rains, thunder, lightning. Chaos of wind-whipped, brilliant reds, yellows and greens of autumn foliage nearly blinding in the intense sunlight. Arching over all a vibrant double rainbow. There are poems here but it will be many years, I suspect, before I grow into them...

"Everything in this world has a hidden meaning...

men, animals, trees, stars,

they are all hieroglyphics.

When you see them you do not understand them.

You think they are really

men, animals, trees, stars.

It is only years later that you understand."

- Nikos Kazantzakis