A Pause for Beauty:
One artist’s journal.
Balance, Harmony Within Unpredictability
Interesting things
Happen out at the horizon
Where the unexpected lives.
Art too happens out at the horizon.
That search for balance and harmony
Out on the horizon.
It’s easy to find balance and harmony
At the center of human life
Where everything is safe and secure.
Epitaph:
“Here lies a man who made his car payments on time.”
That man found balance and harmony.
But pissed away his life.
The challenge is to find it
Where adventure happens.
To find balance and harmony
Within the adventure
Of a big, full life.
Always reaching. Always searching.
The art I seek to create
The life I seek to live
Balance and harmony within unpredictability.
Within the grand adventure.
Its elusiveness is what makes it so engaging.
So worthwhile.
From the journal of Rod MacIver, painter and founder of Heron Dance.
The Tao Te Ching Journal: A Path To Inner Quiet
Zen Mountain Journal blends Taoist hermit poetry, contemplative art, and reflections drawn from a lifetime shaped by wilderness, solitude, and decades doing creative work on the outer boundaries of our culture. These journals are companions for seekers — guides in the reconnection with inner quiet, beauty, and the “soundless music” of a life lived with simplicity and meaning.
• Size: 9.25 × 8.5 inches — convenient size for desk or lap.
• Hardcover — the book can be written in without a table or desk.
• Double wire-o bound to lay flat.
• Printed on Mohawk Superfine, a premium uncoated paper for a beautiful writing surface.
• 160 pages.
