Linking human and ambihuman, consciousness and intuition, with place, through metaphor.

An improbable romance between an engineer and an ecologist, as they travel through the northern hemisphere on projects in ecology and forestry. The works include: Through Tearlight, Evening Swifts, Traces, Changing Lightly, Landscape with Horses, Dancing in a Dark Apartment, Two Trees, Deep Kiss, Finger Playing with Space Time Energy and Mass, House of Rain, One Woman, Forgetting You, Heartless, Thistle, 3 Perspectives from an Ancient Forest, Singing, Isle of Joy

Short stories about living in a forest, following coyotes and wolves, through storms and avalanches, studying birds, bears, and mountain lions, climbing mountains, and imagining what it is like to be human, a lover, a shaman, a loser, an artist, and an athlete.

A collection of short stories: The World's Greatest Athlete: The first dodecathlon, choosing and running the events in 12 different sports. Planning the first hecathlon. The Stealth Clinic: Adventures in a free drug clinic at a summer beach resort. Money talks, so do drugs and music. Monsters: The progress of two artists from accomplishment into madness and death, with brushes, flute and drum VanderGelt's Decision: A bad night for a fight. Night court in an auto town. And, a bad judgment Finding Cantilena: Failing at love with possibly the right mate, and then committing to possibly the wrong...

A brazen attempt to answer the thoughts and questions raised by great poets and writers from Plato to Kundera. Rather than enshrine the wisdom or popularity of the past, the authors treat it as the opening half of a dialogue and play with the ideas to provide a second perspective.