A place to pause and pay your respects. This reminded me of a grave I visit every summer in a very remote part of the back country. It is just 50 feet off a forest road and is the resting place of a man named John Palmer who died in 1908. The marker says that he was a good man.
There is an abandoned homestead a few miles from here, and several years ago a friend and I went to explore it with our cameras ... found a gravestone in the woods. It seems it was the young daughter of the houses onetime occupants. Life, from a human standpoint, can seem awfully short ... I'm reminded of a line by Gus, in McMurtry's, Lonesome Dove, "Life's short. Shorter for some than for others."
Poignant. Time still conducts its tremendous operations over something that has escaped it.
ReplyDeleteyes ... exactly so ... thank you for commenting ...
DeleteDear Teresa, the arc of the day and we beneath it and time becomes eternity with a photograph like this and your words. Thank you. Peace.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Dee, for Seeing so clearly ...
DeleteA place to pause and pay your respects. This reminded me of a grave I visit every summer in a very remote part of the back country. It is just 50 feet off a forest road and is the resting place of a man named John Palmer who died in 1908. The marker says that he was a good man.
ReplyDeleteThere is an abandoned homestead a few miles from here, and several years ago a friend and I went to explore it with our cameras ... found a gravestone in the woods. It seems it was the young daughter of the houses onetime occupants. Life, from a human standpoint, can seem awfully short ... I'm reminded of a line by Gus, in McMurtry's, Lonesome Dove, "Life's short. Shorter for some than for others."
DeleteSuch a vast and open area for someone remains to be put to rest. Perhaps very fitting, especially if that person loved the wide open space.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about the human concept of time and how terribly short it seems ... I do love those wide open spaces ...
DeleteSuch a powerful image and such a profound story in just four words - lovely - K
ReplyDeleteK, I'm so glad you visited me here ... I've always enjoyed your poetry. Thank you for this lovely response.
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