{"id":2976,"date":"2011-06-12T14:38:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T21:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janaremy.com\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2011-06-12T14:38:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T21:38:05","slug":"dropping-from-the-veils-of-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janaremy.com\/pilgrimsteps\/2011\/06\/12\/dropping-from-the-veils-of-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"dropping from the veils of the morning…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a quiet morning, the members of my household all working in different tasks.\u00a0 Working together, but separate.\u00a0 There’s the sound of a neighbor’s friendly conversation that can be faintly heard through the window.\u00a0 The cawing of crows outside the front of our home is not so faint.\u00a0 But there are songbirds, too.\u00a0 And an occasional motorcycle or loud-ish car passing.\u00a0 There’s the tinkle of Ellycat’s bell as she wanders from room to room looking for a warm lap.\u00a0 And the living room is full of soft morning light.<\/p>\n

A few days ago, Catgirl asked me about my synesthesia<\/a>, specifically curious about the types of sensory cross-over that I experience.\u00a0 I don’t have the common variety of text-to-visual synesthesia.\u00a0 Rather, I have visual-to-sound and touch-to-visual.\u00a0 I explained to her that it’s why I can find it so difficult to shop in a mall or in an unfamiliar grocery store–the ‘loud’ designs of the displays create a tornado of sound in my head.\u00a0 It’s hard to process so much visual-sound all at once.\u00a0 It makes me want to find a dim quiet place to sit down and close my eyes. But, on the other hand, if I’m somewhere like an art museum and can take time to savor each painting, the result is far more melodic.<\/p>\n

Lately, I’ve found that images with rich brown-grey colors are yielding such peaceful-quiet tones in my mind.\u00a0 There’s something about their softness that makes me breathe a little deeper and feel more relaxed.\u00a0 It’s almost beyond description, the way my mind makes sounds from images–so I don’t know if this makes any sense at all to someone who hasn’t experienced it.\u00a0 It’s similar to the way I feel when I read some poetry, such as the classic “Lake Isle of Innisfree.”<\/p>\n

Here are some of my recent favorite “quiet” photos:<\/p>\n

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The Lake Isle of Innisfree<\/strong>
\nBy William Butler Yeats
\nI will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
\nAnd a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
\nNine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
\nAnd live alone in the bee-loud glade.<\/p>\n

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
\nDropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
\nThere midnight’s all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
\nAnd evening full of the linnet’s wings.<\/p>\n

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
\nI hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
\nWhile I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
\nI hear it in the deep heart’s core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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