Aquamarine Instructions

These instructions appear in shades of green, malachite, olive, moss, emerald, verdigris, forest, grass, jade, lime, avocado, vert, viridian, and aquamarine

One: Imagine you are standing in the heart of a great glowing world-girdling forest. Close your eyes and listen.

What do you hear?

Two: On this occasion you find yourself landlocked in stone in the city. Granite, steel, onyx. Somewhere, you know, is a park, an oasis. Respite. Close your eyes and sniff the hint of breeze.

Where do you find it?

Three. Now you are in your garden. A humming fills your ears. Your heart is tugged by growth and decay and change and growth again. Buried in the garden is its green heart which will reveal the alchemy of the growing world. Close your eyes, plunge your hands deep into the moist soil.

Where do you find it?

Four. Suddenly you are standing on a tor, an island in a sea of green grass. A friend is there with you. Cupping your hands, he paints in them a spiralling web of lines overlapping, interweaving, connecting, coiling, flowering, growing, decaying, and growing again. In a deep green voice he speaks to you. Close your eyes and listen.

What does he say?