Green Rocky Roads

Karen Dalton: Green Rocky Road




Fred Neil: Green Rocky Road





Taj Mahal / André Christovam: Green Rocky Road



The letter said that they
were two feet high, and green,
and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to the sky.
At the top of each shaft was a little hand with a green eye in its palm. The creatures were friendly, and they could see in four dimensions. They pitied Earthlings for being able to see only three. They had many wonderful things to teach Earthlings, especially about time. Billy promised to tell what some of those wonderful things were in his next letter.





Billy was working on his second letter when the first letter was published.
The second letter started
out like this:
The most important thing
I learned on Tralfamadore
was that when a person dies
he only appears to die.
He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral.
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at
a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance.
They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
--Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five




Comanche Point
Palisades of the Desert
Hermit Basin
Ribbon Fall
Solomon Temple
Buddha Temple
butterfly on bandana