When One Comes to Listen

"Listening Point is a bare glaciated spit of rock in the Quetico-Superior country. Each time I have gone there I have found something new which has opened up great realms of thought and interest. For me it has been a point of discovery and, like all such places of departure, has assumed meaning far beyond the ordinary.
From it I have seen the immensity of space and glimpsed at times the grandeur of creation. There I have sensed the span of uncounted centuries and looked down the path all life has come. I have explored on this rocky bit of shore the great concept that nothing stands alone and everything, no matter how small, is part of a greater whole.
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I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening-point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but some place of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe." Sigurd Olson, 'Listening Point' (1958), page 3 and 8.

Below pictures of the Listening Point cabin:

I asked artist Anna Zandberga-Šenke (website) to make a visual summary of Listening Point in a graphic. She made one for me. A very cool and lovely graphic. How gifted she is. Cleverly made. A complex puzzle in which the world comes to a standstill and at the same time is in motion. Grapic:

Explanation of the numbered details:  

 

1. Chimney outside
2. Green from wood and blue fairy cloud
3. Corner of roof
4. Door hinges inside
5. Detail fireplace inside
6. Matching beams in corner of house outside
7. Old boards
8. Carpet and cover over bed
9. Back of chair
10. Blue from sky
11. Paddle of canoe
12. Canoe inside
13. Red from canoe
14. Green and black of canoe
15. Window with sunlight
16. Window green forest outside
17. Window green forest outside
18. Books on shelf
19. Round basket on shelf
20. Scandanavian symbols on rug above shelf: mix of auseklis, krusts and star. For protection against evil or bad dreams
21. Golden ratio
22. Brown of roof

P.S. I wrote about Olson before in 2015 'Olson Quote'.