Neurobiologists say that our sensitivity to color begins when we are infants.
How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away.
"Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home-not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. How our perceptions are our only internal map of the. by the author not seen by PW."Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home-not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. Knowledgeable and lyrical, Meloy's meditations should resonate with those who find sustenance in the natural world. In a restaurant her husband seats her near the door so she can "see the night sky and stars and be less likely to shriek with panic and bolt." She needs solitude so she can contemplate the things she considers essential-steep-sided canyons and their swift rivers a basket woven by a Yokuts Indian woman an ancient rock maze in the Mojave Desert a pair of placid old mules spending their retirement in a field. She finds contact with civilization jarring. But for Meloy, all colors are captivating, from the red-gold in the spines of a prickly pear glowing in the sun to the clay-red of "waterfalls cascading down lavender and crimson sandstone." Her reactions to the natural world are so intense they border on pain. The Yucatán's turquoise Caribbean coast enthralls her, as does the turquoise sea of the Bahamas. In another, she reflects whimsically on California's turquoise swimming pools. In one chapter she muses on the history and mystique of the blue-green gem. Color figures prominently here, especially turquoise, the hue of the signature stone of the region. Meloy ( Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River) takes the reader through landscapes of pure sensation in these contemplative essays that are part Southwest travelogue, part memoir and part naturalism.
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