Philip Grant:  

Hi! See my renditions of the greatest keyboard works of Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert at YouTube. Search Phil Grant, Bach, and then click on my name. At that point you can find my website and everything else you might want to know about me, including my book (Cabeza and the Meaning of Wilderness: An Exploration of Nature and Mind) described below. Best, Phil Set primarily in the vast Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge of Southwest Arizona, Cabeza is a different kind of wilderness book. No “conquering” of mighty summits; no dazzling deeds of derring-do. While there is hardly a lack of summits, they are, rather, “caressed,” not conquered. It is a wilderness book where Nature is seen not as foe to be battled, but friend with whom one can just, simply, be. A companion to help one understand that the essence of a human being, “the ground of our being” . . . is profoundly rooted in its Source. It is a book about sitting so still an endangered Sonoran Desert pronghorn . . . walks right up. About spending nights on mountaintops with a view of the Whole thing . . . and a rising orange half-moon to befriend one at 3 a.m. About camping in a secluded, intimate canyon . . . and listening to the poor-will sing its plaintive, haunting, penetrating song . . . all night long. Poor will . . . poor will . . . poor will . . . poor will . . . The interested reader may wish to peruse the three quotations from the dedication page below, the excerpts, and especially the 24 pages of photographs (posted at my website) by the author. Do those photos reveal Something, however ineffable? That is the focus of Cabeza: to convey Something of Keats’ Beauty-Truth and the author’s lifelong quest for the same. A quest to find freedom from Einstein’s “prison” of self; to find the freedom to “embrace all living things and nature in its beauty”; to find the freedom to allow, in Carl Sagan’s words, “the Cosmos to know itself.” With a liberal dusting of wit, a sprinkling of self-deprecation, a sparkling and unexpected wry humor, and a conversational tone that magically engages the reader, ...Expand for more