The Mist Down the Mountain By Catherine Viel

[Manuel Tavares]

The Mist Down the Mountain
By Catherine Viel
https://ascensionflame.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-mist-down-mountain.html

On the day I set out,
the mountain is high in front of me, the unreliable god of mist and fog…
Everything becomes lucid.
~Clifton Gachagua, Mountain

This morning, I’m dealing with another episode of my cat’s wounded stomach. Painful, messy symptoms, multiple veterinary consults, medication injection blessedly provided at home by the mobile vet…Not exactly Wagnerian opera, but in my small world, a tragic epic nonetheless.

I needed to change the channel from dreariness, so I looked out front where the art show called Nature is painting its canvas. We have rain, always miraculous in midst of perpetual California drought. The leaves are....+ https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-mist-down-mountain.html