This is the latest book in a series that began in the late 1990s.
Throughout this sequence, there has been a movement away from the personal
and confessional to cultural and social observations.
The first section, sharing is a representative selection.
Then follows a Lamma legacy, a tribute to the people of Lamma in Hong Kong,
where I was declared poet laurette. Lamma Island was a microcosm,
as was Hong Kong itself.
This focus on belonging and cultural identity continues.
A later section explores how a variety of nations have established national myths,
part of the moving mosaic of global culture.
We share in this, as we share in the beauty of the world, as expressed in the final
phase of the past is present.
Over this series, the ideals have deepened and mellowed,
reflecting a shift towards universal consciousness,
perhaps a global awakening.
I hope you share in this dream!
The past is present and divine,
each breath a whisper always thine,
the distillation of our dreams,
essencing truth in all that seems.
Circa l’autore
John Stuart was born and raised in the Rainbow Region on the Australian East Coast and has spent most of his life there. In recent years he has lived overseas, mainly in China but has been back in Australia since Covid times, living via the river in Evans Head. He is again becoming restless. John has spent this time revising his work and making videos based on the material, as per website. www.jkstuart.com This book features several literary articles from his teaching times, on Keats, Gatsby and Hamlet, as an exploration of beauty, originally published in Metaphor, a teachers’ magazine but increasingly valid for us all. In Australian politics John has actively supported Progressives and Greens in their vision of a better world. From this we may create and sustain a fundamental change in our evolutionary selves, emerging from the past is present. It can happen, it must happen, it will happen! This theme is further explored in the final book in the sharing series, the voice is calling. We are the roots from which the tree grows the source of our life and our seeing, seeding our future before it goes, the very reason for our being.
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