I didn’t want to leave the topic of The Awakened Eye by Frederick Franck without mention of this one last passage, As part of seeing/drawing and his Zen beliefs he has written an enlightened passage on how we treat the earth as follows:

“It struck me like a whip, Only in America, I believe, does one speak of earth as “dirt”. Are we products of dirt?”

later,

“Where Earth is seen as dirt, the bulldozer is destined to mutilate, to “develop”, to “landscape” what is mere dirt. Mother dirt….”

So far all his writings and drawings have touched me in various ways, I am onto my third book. I enjoy it so much I am able to forgive him for his distaste of photography.

Previous posts on Frederick Franck –

https://pitcturethis.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/the-awakened-eye-by-frederick-franck/

https://pitcturethis.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/more-inspiration-addendum/ore-inspiration/

https://pitcturethis.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/more-inspiration/