The Many Faces of Being

If this blog were a poem, it would be "Helpstone", by John Clare. If it were a piece of classical music, it would be "L'Apres Midi du Faun", by Claude Debussy. If it were a painting, it would be "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog", by Caspar David Friedrich. If it were a children's book, it would be "The Lorax", by Dr. Seuss. If it were a rock song, it would be "Apeman", by The Kinks. It if were a movie, it would be "The Emerald Forest", directed by John Boorman. If it were a pop song, it would be "Rocky Mountain High", by John Denver. If it were a sermon, it would be the Tao te Ching by Lao Tzu. If it were a folksong, it would be "Sumer is Icumen In", by an anonymous Middle English minstrel. If it were an essay, it would be "Walking" by Henry David Thoreau. It if were a parable it would be "The Lilies of the Field" by Yeshua ben Maria. If it were a memoir, it would be Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat. It if were a solemn compact, it would be based on the speech given by Chief Seattle on March 11, 1854. It it were a novel, it would be Mythago Wood, by Robert Holdstock. It if were a folktale, it would be the ORIGINAL (heathen) version of "One Tree Hill", featuring three dryads and their soul-trees, as collected in A Dictionary of British Folktales in the English Language, edited by Katharine Mary Briggs. If it were a hymn, it would be "Jerusalem", by William Blake. If it were a songbird it would be a wood thrush. If it were a religion, it would be the pantheism of the Romantic Movement. If it were two lovers, it would be Richard Plantagenet and Anne of Bohemia. And if it were a place, it would be and could only be Appalachia, for Sherwood was lost long ago.