PORTAL

About the Book

Portal – The Intersection of Time and Purpose is a multi-layered story that flows with the fluidity of a wild mountain stream. In currents of lyric prose, the author seeks to awaken the reader to a pathway for personal discovery, a process for revealing hidden purpose.

The reader first encounters Tyne, the protagonist, in the painful act of breaking away from everything that had been stable and secure in his life – his family, his career, his home. Broken and alone he begins his journey. Why? Is he running from something – or chasing after something?

Travel with Tyne as he moves through the high desert, mountains and arroyos of the Southwest like a nomad, unencumbered by the expectations of the life he has left behind. Playing itself out on three planes, the story first mystifies, then awakens, and finally clarifies. There is the spiritual, timeless quest. There is the movement across a magical landscape of desert plateaus and violent juxtapositions of red rock spires and azure blue sky. And there is travel backward and forward through time - through personal history or fantasy, and the history of the land and its people and its creatures.

At the precipice of death and destruction, Tyne´s instincts take hold, and from this nexus the story fills its sails with a warm wind, a force for rebirth. Tyne is able to integrate with the child he once was, the being he was first created to be. Tyne reclaims his sense of creation, and his own place within it. He stands at the portal to a new life.

About the Author

The author spent his boyhood running the fields, forests and hills of Northern California, shinnying up cantilevered oaks and cornering green frogs in the elbows of darkened streams. As a teen he spent countless hours in the Sierra, winters skiing its slopes and summers rafting the white waters of its raging rivers with his father. As a young man he read and studied Faulkner, Hesse, Mann, Pinter, Stoppard, Dickey, O’Neil, Thomas, Sartre, Rulfo, Fuentes, Cather, James, Milton, Dostoevski…and poured back out his own poetry, including poetry for stage performance. He dreamed of writing the next great novel.