Author: K. L. Homme
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Waypoint 2.2: Of Wings, Words, and Sacrificial Hearts
“Every time we speak one of these words, an ancient Nahuatl spirit is let loose to circle on the wind. Speech is a kind of resurrection.”
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Field Note 2.1: The Wind Has No Papers
Not long after, we found ourselves witness to the tail end of the annual migration of California tortoiseshell butterflies, lifted upslope on Lassen’s invisible updrafts. Many had journeyed from northern Mexico and Baja California — without proper papers, their wings notwithstanding. And yet we do not call them “illegal.”
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Waypoint 2.1: To Gain the Wider View
From Chapter 2, “The Soul’s Ascent” “Expectations are the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, we lose today.” — Seneca The fresh fall air of mid-September — for fall does begin early at this elevation, now more than 9,000 feet above the Central Valley floor — was crisp, cool, and it grew slightly…
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Waypoint 1.4: The Map Is Not the Mountain
What is knowledge, really, but a certain something that works? Something woven from within, spun out spider-like, from the silken stuff of experience, stories, legends, and dreams?
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Waypoint 1.2: Trees of Forbidden Knowledge
With delight, we watched our scientifically-inclined boy turn into Vulcan’s evangelical— a pint-sized prophet of sulfur and smoke.
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Waypoint 1.3: The Trailhead
Ratatoskr, the trickster squirrel — a kind of mythic pundit — dashes between the world-tree’s top and bottom, stirring chaos.
No Shortcuts to Now 