Steven Pavlos Holmes, Ph.D.

That’s where I’m at – the lowest rung of heaven, the lowest object in the heavens – maybe a mountain’s horizon

Fall of ‘89 – general exams, Willard Brook State Forest trip, the mystic misty maple – Winter of solidarity Spring, and summer of Barbara! Fall of Barbara Winter of Barbara After Barbara

Really do it – fully, and with alacrity, and with happiness and pleasure – Do it right – and do it wisely, and with grace And do something with it, – and for it

What I’m interested in is what it means to people, and what they creatively do to it and with it and for it; and how they feel, imagine, and embody a relationship to it, and a relationship with it, and a relationship for it … Though actually, I don’t really give a shit about what … More I don’t give a shit about how nature really works

That’s the foundational non-laboring, non-managerial, non-administrative, leisurely, aboriginal , original masculine world-consciousness of the twentieth century West – the world has been made for us, we don’t have to do the grunt work, let’s just roll ahead, or slide, or dance across it – it’ll be great And it is! And of course, all this … More Pay a little attention to your environment, and things’ll be fine

Presence to others, to oneself, to the whole Presence to the whole And then, Vitality And then, Eros

I thought There was A cheese.

Both individually, existentially, and as part of a shared cultural and imaginative touchstone, or imago