That is some window you have there, my friend. It must have a fish-eye telescopic time-travel lens or
glass in it to see this all in one viewing. I have,
in my little life, been able to travel more than most and less than some, but the only thing I can compare this with is being on the 9th floor of a hotel in Casablanca, Morocco and looking down at the crowd below for the first time. At first it was a blur of
faces and people and slowly, slowly it began to change into a texture of emotions, faces, personalities, and
"threads" as you so aptly term them. It happened to
me once in New York City also, when I was up high in hotel at the North End of Central Park, only the faces were more familiar to me as America is my native country.
You move quite descriptively and quickly through these
images, emotions, and threads, and I am sure it has taken you years of learning and seeing to be able to do this. This is not the writing of a young person in a foreign land for the first time.
You may call this an allegory. a view into the (you spelled it teh - typo but since it's in the title entry you probably should fix it) structure of creation. This is, of course, a very spiritual way of
looking at this melange before you; I could say it is a tapestry of life. Either way, it is spiritual, highly, in nature, and only someone with a deeply spiritual nature would see these conections, I think;
I myself would say that it would be someone well versed in Buddhism or one of the Eastern religions where everything is One and every deed or action has an effect on every other deed or action, and all peoples are connected through grace, through sorrow, through loss, through whatever force or power one chooses to call that mighty cohesion that appears to be
in the entire universe.
I know I'm going a little off of the subject here, and
a little beyond the scope of a "review," but your fine
article has brought all of this out in me. Theology and philosophy and favorite subjects of mine (I majored in philosophy in undergraduate school), and I love to talk and/or write about them. I see you have included "mythological" in your categorization of this piece and I find that fascinating. It must be that you feel (dare I say realize?) that there is no one set way of looking at who we are, how we got here, etc., and I am sure you realize how blessed you are to be able to write a piece such as this and to see these cross "threads" present in the great tapestry that we
call our world.
I apologize for going on and on here, but as I said,
this piece has brought out certain of my beliefs and affinities with what you have written and I am appreciative of that, and in turn wish to share.
All best to you, you wife and children. Please, keep
writing!
VerySara
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