8 Seasons

The book 8 Seasons - Haiku consists of three parts. The first section The Garden is an homage to the seasons to the changing weather through the year to how plants change and to how the eight seasons make their impact on us all. Living by the Trondheim-fjord experiencing the tides the clouds the birds the plants and how we all are part of each other was the source of inspiration for the author. The second section The Way is centered around a series of ten old Chinese paintings. In the Chinese tradition the process of knowing and realizing the Self is described as the process of ox-taming. For each of them Holthe is giving his comments in the form of a Haiku. The third section The Gardener is an attempt to summarize the whole underlining the unity of the 8 Seasons.