Patrick McDonnell's Mutts (4-25-2014)

The Mountains Are Calling Mallory climbed Everest because it was there, never reaching the top. Hillary and Tenzing were the first to reach the summit of Everest on May 29, 1953 and the news broke on QE II's coronation. Gary Snyder heard mountain ranges singing and dreamt of Ramana. Ramana heard the call of Mt. Arunchala and stayed there all his life. Paul Brunton wrote A Hermit in the Himalayas and was enlightend by Ramana— When I told him about my dream in a car about to crash into Matterhorn and flying over it, PB took me up Mont Pèlerin to visit Geshe Rabten Rinpoche. Later I went to Mt. Shasta for a Medicine Walk and sweat lodge with Red Hawk. I sang wind songs to hawks flying above and birds ate seeds from my hand. Allen Ginzberg saw a glow in Mont Sainte-Victoire painted by Cézanne and I was carried away by Mussorgsky's roaring Night on Bald Mountain. The mountains are calling because it's really our soul calling us to come home. — Peter Y. Chou     Mountain View, 5-19-2014