Along the roadside on Route 8B in Erzulie on the continent of Satori are some wooded areas. Sojourner’s Ground is a peaceful rest area and retreat. There’s a campsite among the white birch trees.
“We should find countless intermediaries between reality and symbols if we gave things all the movements they suggest.” (Gaston Bachelard)
Erzulie is the Vodou Lwa of love and women. There’s a diverse range of information about her online. An altar focusing on healing and positive aspects to honor her has been placed on the land.
There’s a water feature and pool which is a lovely place for sunrises.
Sojourner’s Grove has a small orchard of lemon and orange trees.
“Lift up your faces, you have a piercing need
For this bright morning dawning for you.
History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, but if faced
With courage need not be lived again. ”
~ Maya Angelou
There are benches outside the orangery for watching sunsets. Fortunately the new neighbor, in the spirit of respecting the surrounding area, has planted wildflowers and provided more seating, leaving the view unobstructed.
When even more chilling is needed, there’s a sky pool with underwater seating accessed via teleporter which isn’t too difficult to find.
I like the way you included the quote and poem..A person searching for poetry on the internet might stumble onto your website and be encouraged to visit a virtual world for the first time..
Good point; the quotes and poem are in the land descriptions. There’s also a plinth with this carved into it:
“Had I the Heaven’s embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
of night and light and the half-light;
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
:I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
*W.B. Yeats)
That quote sounds appropriate and poignant to me because so much of what we offer to others in virtual worlds are symbols of our dreams.