What is Rock & Hawk?
If you like getting outside, birds and bird photos, this newsletter will interest you. I obsessively take bird photos and learn about birds—anything outside really. Ferns, goldenrod, mushrooms, but the main obsession is birds.
“Rock and Hawk” is a poem by Robinson Jeffers. He describes a falcon, perched atop a rock:
Rock and Hawk Here is a symbol in which Many high tragic thoughts Watch their own eyes. This gray rock, standing tall On the headland, where the seawind Lets no tree grow, Earthquake-proved, and signatured By ages of storms: on its peak A falcon has perched. I think, here is your emblem To hang in the future sky; Not the cross, not the hive, But this; bright power, dark peace; Fierce consciousness joined with final Disinterestedness; Life with calm death; the falcon's Realist eyes and act Married to the massive Mysticism of stone, Which failure cannot cast down Nor success make proud.
I want to write about such topics. To quote another Jeffers poem: “Nothing more timely, nothing less real.” Ideas that mirror show nature’s fierce consciousness and disinterestedness; indifference to failures and successes that might consume us. I share pictures from nature to show things which capture this indifference
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