I ask all blessings,
I ask them with reverence,
of my mother earth,
of the sky, moon, and sun.

I am old age: the essence of life,
I am the source of all happiness.

All is peaceful, all in beauty
all in harmony, all in joy.

Navajo Wisdom

Treeless.  Wherever I visit a part of the world, I feel most at home in landscapes, particularly ones that are naturally open and spacious with few trees and buildings.  Within the last month, my journeys have taken me above the tree line to a volcano referred...