{"id":29072,"date":"2021-10-12T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T17:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29072"},"modified":"2021-10-10T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T22:29:11","slug":"book-report-the-legend-of-the-one-by-orlea-rayne-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/12\/book-report-the-legend-of-the-one-by-orlea-rayne-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Legend of the One<\/i> by Orlea Rayne (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookThis short book of poetry, 39 pages, contains, what, a single poem or prayer spread over the 39 pages with a spiritual theme that presents the One as a female figure, so it’s not a Christian spiritual collection. Given that each page or poem faces a mandala, the poetext might be to support the mandalas instead of the other way around.<\/p>\n

A mandala, as you might remember, gentle reader (not that I’ve ever mentioned it here before), is an Eastern art form<\/a> that uses geometric shapes and whatnot designed as a meditation aid for Buddhists, Hindus, and whatnot. The mandalas in this book are not so geometric as much as abstract art with an Eastern flavor. I guess the author would make mandalas for people–her bio says that she was divinely guided after a near death experience and that she wants to help everyone just get along like Susan Polis Schultz<\/a>. The author’s Facebook page was active until 2015, so she was probably creating mandalas for people well into our century.<\/p>\n

So, the poetext, meh, but the mandalas are interesting. Given that I got this book in one of the dollar bundles of chapbooks available at the at the library book sales<\/a>, I think it was worth the 18 cents I probably spent on it. After all, I counted it as a whole book in my annual goal of reading 100 books.<\/p>\n