Cari Amici
(Dear Friends),
I have been visiting
one of my Angel Academy fellow artist friends, Wendy, in Bristol,
England. The other day we
drove to Wiltshire to see the famous prehistoric monument Stonehenge.
Stonehenge is believed to
have been built anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. and while many observations
have been made about how the specific placements of the stones coincide with
natural events (sunrise, sunset, winter and summer solstices, and more), it
still feels as though we have more questions than answers.
It now costs eight pounds to
get in, with a free audio guide that I felt was actually interesting and useful
(I do not always appreciate this commentary in art museums). Sadly, due probably to the negative
behaviours of humans being selfish, one can no longer walk amongst the stones
and the ropes that are quite tempting to jump over are fairly distant from the
monument. I behaved… really.
Although the consensus of
Stonehenge is that it was a gathering place for people, I would have loved to
have been alone and walking amongst the stones at dusk. I want to touch them and smell them. The audio guide told that there are over 90
different specimens of lichen on those rocks.
There are many colors in the stone, visible in their subtleties even at
the distance we had to stay. Some of the
stones have enough iron in them that when they fall over or are horizontal, one
can clearly see the ferric red color “flowing over” the stone. And they believe that human sacrifices were
done on these sacred stones. I only see
more questions than answers. Are we not
a complicated lot?
