Silhouettes and Seasons is a deeply personal meditation, a collection of essays intent upon forging a deeper connection with our true nature, a sentient succession of seven years of seeking soulful possibility and transcendence. It is a journey to uncover an inner self that is innate but unfamiliar yet still bears an intuitively authentic fi t. The essays serve as an open invitation to immerse yourself in the moment, to seek the awakening of your anesthetized senses to the world in which you dwell, to seek the sublime submerged in the subliminal. The seemingly disparate tales conspire to trace a life of perpetual transition, the unbroken ebb and flow of endings and beginnings that can only be given birth on the basis of our conscious choosing. The thoughts expressed are intended to be deeply contemplative and acutely introspective, but by no means absolute. The views are framed in ways that the author hopes will inspire the reader to examine and embrace his or her own spiritual and philosophical leanings.
From childhood nature has always occupied a prominent place in the author's life, but it took reading the published works of Henry David Thoreau for him to realize the spiritual, intellectual, and philosophical affinity that was to shape the course that would inevitably lead him to these literary interpretations offered in this book. It took the soaring prose of Walden, read and reread, to coalesce the author's past and present into his intimate search for a life that he could claim well-lived.
An engineer by education and profession, the author is a graduate of Penn State University and a former project engineer, engineering manager, and director of engineering for a major US corporation. After thirty-fi ve years, he left the corporate world in pursuit of other lives that he believed were waiting to be lived. The pursuit continues. Writing and nature photography are preeminent among the paths the author has chosen. All the images included in this text were selected from his work.