This story is set to the music of Bay Area shakuhachi player Masayuki Koga, who runs the Japanese Music Institute of America. It’s from an album called Eastwind. All poetry in this piece can be found in the book Tamalpais Walking, by Tom Killion and Gary Snyder. There are a few spirits in this part of the world … not wholly divorced from nature, with something of the poetry of the savage left. They have made a gallant fight to keep the mountain undefiled and to rouse all the people to an appreciation of its wonders. They are inspirers of the project that asks the world to see an ancient miracle play … on one of the most picturesque spots in the world. - John Barry - 1913 Tom Killion is working in his studio, on a forested ridge up the Pt. Reyes peninsula. He looks at spectacular vistas: of waterways, of trees, of hills, and high peaks. They’re all in the wood he’s carving. “It’s really good to have broken lines and twisty things and sort of more organic forms in the markings, and I’m
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