"Ventana Triptych" genre: New Age
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	One Sunday recently, I hiked up Ventana Canyon to see how it had changed since the Aspen Fire (see “Aspen Fire Ring” at www.stujenks.com. That is a shot of Ventana Canyon near the end of the blaze). Shirtless, with a couple of liters of water and my Brownie Camera slung over my back, I ascended this steep and not much traveled trail. Above the fire line, I found the ashen white silhouettes of whole burnt Mesquites, the islands of living Prickly Pears spared by the capriciousness of the fire, the natural fire break that the boulders in the bottom of the canyon created, keeping much of the fire on the eastern slope. And the small tufts of New Green, of grass coming back with the help of recent monsoon rains. This photograph and this musical piece are about the movement toward wholeness, the connection of land and rain and ash, the continuation of�the Big Circle. Running time: 5:05 minutes.

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