Look closely at deer lichen (commonly called deer moss), on the left a healthy powder puff and the rest crushed, crumbled, distraught. I'm watching this growth at the edge of the forest and the highway/bike path. See background page. Journal entries, 2008-05-04 follow.
Terror on the Timpoochee Trail *
Mower has wreaked another path of destruction on the deer lichen, rolling over it with big wheels, crushing it. Thinking about deer lichen and time. How they are so old, respected as elders. How when tune into their mindfield, time is a different dimension. We are used to motion picture of time in frames per second. Or instantaneous time. But it is a different perspective. We have a distorted perspective where time and space diminish in distance from us. I really can't characterize deer lichen timefield but when tune into it, feel altered consciousness. But am getting a sense of reverse perspective, where farthest away is biggest and same with time. The more current something is, the smaller. Say deer lichen gets the big picture. Maybe is why is so attractive to us.
Photographed 2008-05-14 on Scenic 30A at the site SW of Deer Lake. The GPS coordinates are N 30°18'29.9" W086°04'49.1". Alternatively, see a larger image.
* Timpoochee Trail, named after Timpoochee Kinnard, the most influential Indian Chief of the Euchee Indians, this 19- mile, paved path runs along Scenic 30A, parallel to the Gulf of Mexico.
Deer lichen site 3.3a. Back to Scenic 30A.
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