I used to live in the evening shadow of Mt. Tamalpais in Northern California. The translation of that name is said to be "The Sleeping Lady" and the mountain is shaped somewhat (in profile only) similarly to my friend here. My personal respect for this image (after all these years) is based on the metaphor or analogy of her body for the hillsides. It continues the exterior landscape seen outside one window, in an interior, personal way, to the other window with faint sister hills, thus bridging the connection between ourselves and the earth, which can then be personalized by anyone with an imagination and the time to contemplate.(posted 8710 days ago)Anyone ever read "Venus and Adonis" by Wm. Shakespeare? Venus speaks to Adonis:
"Fondling she saith, since I have hemmed thee here within the circle of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shall be my deer: feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale, graze on my lips and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie
Within this limit is relief enough, sweet bottom grass, and high delightful plain, round rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, to shelter thee from rain...
Then be my deer, since I am such a park, and no dog shall rouse thee, though a thousand bark"
... t