iv_birdmad_internal_topography frAnk you often write about the arizona landscape, painting vivid pictures of the beautiful topography of the place in which you live. if you were to describe the state of your emotional and spiritual landscape, what would it look like? 010519 ... birdmad i keep a rainforest in the back of my mind volcanoes (psychological landscape) quiet periods offset with outburst that can, by turns, be destructive, creative (or both) a manic place of jagged rocks and fertile plains which seems at any moment as if it might sink into the ocean i live in a desert, but sometimes i feel like an island (although the old adage says that no man is such unto himself) 010519 what's it to you? who go blather from