Hi Tim. With Earth and Heaven also the light of my life, thankfully we do not live in such rigid, dogmatically oppressive times, at least in terms of faith, religious or otherwise, excluding the dogmatism of capitalist economics! A very dear friend of mine, an avowed atheist - though I think he would say now he was more a humanist - spoke of his tramping (that's our Kiwi expression for bush walking) experience when he was on a rise after walking several hills and valleys and he looked at the vista of the multilayered levels of landscape and had an experience he could not put into words. He did come up with one and I have quoted him often; he called it an experience of the "beyondness".

Thank you, Candlewitch, for your welcome. I'm humbled by your comment. I can get so easily absorbed by the beauties of the natural world, my immediate world so often as I look at the birch trees, my sisters so frequently losing their split ends by the Manawatu wind.

Thanks Geezer, I'm not sure what you mean by your last sentence. Does that apply to people who write memoirs or autobiographies?