Notes from the West Pole

Creating a Harmonious Life in an Adversarial Culture

Notes from the West Pole is the spiritual manifesto of a worldly man who loves this life and its vigorous challenges.

You won’t find here the pronouncements of a barefoot yogi advising you to go sit on a mountaintop or retire to a cave with a begging bowl; rather, you will witness the intimate progress of a seeker who knows material success but who looks beyond all of that for the key to partaking of the world’s pleasures while rejecting the age-old, obsolete “warrior” models of antagonism, and aggression. With a full spectrum of expression, ranging from the whimsical to the empirical, Peter Wells offers us the narrative of his odyssey of discovery. Poetry and song, personal anecdotes, graceful line drawings, and lush photos of Mendocino, and environs are juxtaposed with short, efficient disquisitions on history, government and religion that provide his quest with a solid underpinning of reality and hard truths.

©2018 Peter Wells (P)2018 Peter Wells