“A vast inheritance awaits you in the wise counsel of your relatedness.”
Visual storyteller Katie Teague filmed this video within 18 miles of her home in Ashland, Oregon. She added her poetry and Ukrainian musician Merlean’s composition “Drama in Heaven” to her stunning images to create a few moments for us to remember our kinship with nature and with each other.
Teague explains “While I love time-lapse photography as it uniquely and exquisitely renders the aliveness of the Earth and cosmos, as a process it deepens me in my relation to the spirit of a place. I experience it as a genuine opportunity to more than just see but to behold (and to be beheld).”
Behold
A voice from the edge of the world
Woke me
In the dark abyss before time
When mind and matter are undivided
Before the dawn of Everything
Her words were like wind breathing me
“Each inhale is preparation for death.”
“So look with your eyes” she said.
“but see with your heart.”
“Behold where you have come from” she said
“A vast inheritance awaits you
in the wise council
of your relatedness.”