In 2020 I was on the coast of Oregon, and the waterscape there just moved me. I wanted to get as close to the ocean as I could, to make sense of nature. I wanted to get to the meaning of things. And the words started coming to me.
That set off a three-year exploration into nature … and into quiet. Much of Bernier’s earlier writing has an urban, jazzy, almost physical quality, throwing out lines like well-aimed punches. But he began looking more inward, seeking out natural settings by the water, such as Chincoteague Island — where he would go in the dead of winter, so he could be alone.
I wanted to be able to sit down and listen, he says. And to write.
From article by Stephen Brookes in the hollinhillsjournal.com
OCEAN SUITE
Book Info
Ocean Suite is a meditation on meaning through the sound and the circling of nature. How meaning is hidden in the waves and the sun and the moon and the singing of wildlife and the elements. Intrigued by the juxtaposition of beauty and silence, Ocean Suite explores time and peace and the movement of trees and the testament of tide. How the now and the is muse one’s inner voice. And speak to the meaning of meaning.
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