The rock that grew a village
With drawings from the author’s sketchbook
Gary Lindorff is a writer / poet, and dream worker, living in mid - southwestern Vermont with his wife, Shirley and their two cats and some (harmless) spiders. He is author of nine published works including 5 non-fiction, one memoir and four books of poetry.
He follows a path that marries three threads that keep crossing and weaving together — the Jungian thread, the Native American (-influenced) thread and the shamanic thread. Each path complements the others and each path represents a slightly different world view. “As a counselor, when I work with a client long-term, at first the dreams are archetypally grounded but, after a while, it is useful to apply a shamanic lens and often that leads to initiatory work, perhaps a vision quest.”
“Everything that happens in a dream is a synchronicity within the context of the dream. The same may be said for a poem. Everything in a poem is a fractal composed of fractals, where each part reflects the character of the whole poem. I am not worried about writing poems that seem unfinished or fragmented because they are all expressive of a much larger reality that can never be manifested in one lifetime (much less one poem) , but only glimpsed. Since each poem echoes or anticipates this elusive whole I am content.”
