I was struck by these words: “I have always been sympathetic with the early notion of a divine power that exists in a particular place or that travels about over the face of the earth as a man might wander.” They reminded me of JRR Tolkien’s observation: “Not all those who wander are lost.” “The spirit seems to roll along like the mythical hoop snake with its tail in its mouth.” “Of course, we have no idea which arc on the loop is our time, let alone where the loop is,” she remarks. She sees a knot of snakeskin shed by a snake, and finding the knot has no beginning, she reflects on time as the continuous loop or as an ascending spiral. I was captivated by the way she relates her nature observations to spiritual insights. The author wrote ‘ Pilgrim at Tinker Creek‘ back in 1972, at the age of 27.
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