Looking for the Buck Mountain Vortex

Once upon a time
actually the first day of the new year
several companions set out
into the cold stillness of the white forest
to find a

- VORTEX -

What is this strange being?

Is it perhaps the key to understanding

Life - Energy - Spirit

My Quest for this New Year

Who said it was easy finding one on a huge mountain?

This pine first spoke to me

Behind him lay a still and mysterious place

I wait - always waiting for the right moment

Your needles speak of stars

Your branches reach upwards like spears

O Mountain, tell me of your Mysteries !

What is this? Do You see it too?

Why is my compass spinning in circles?

My dream trip to the source

The Way to the Source
lies beyond these trees. Ye who seek shall find it and feel it when the time is ripe

Beware Ye who try to own it!

There are many crossings: some easy, others not so

Some have died who tried to change the flow.

The morning and evening are one day. The night schrouds the world in stillness

I struggle on in the dark

The path is high...

and long. The rising sun calls me on

at last...the Jewel of the Mountain - the Tear of the Clouds

I offer my thanks

And Tahawus looks down upon me, blessing me

I rest upon his bones.

and look out upon his world