Fronds
Fronds
The rugged old Norsemen spoke of death as Heimgang home-going. So the snow-flowers go home when they melt and flow to the sea, and the rock-ferns, after unrolling their fronds to the light and beautifying the rocks, roll them up close again in the autumn and blend with the soil. Myriads of rejoicing living creatures, daily, hourly, perhaps every moment sink into death’s arms, dust to dust, spirit to spirit waited on, watched over, noticed only by their Maker, each arriving at its own heaven-dealt destiny. All the merry dwellers of the trees and streams, and the myriad swarms of the air, called into life by the sunbeam of a summer morning, go home through death, wings folded perhaps in the last red rays of sunset of the day they were first tried. Trees towering in the sky, braving storms of centuries, flowers turning faces to the light for a single day or hour, having enjoyed their share of life’s feast all alike pass on and away under the law of death and love. Yet all are our brothers and they enjoy life as we do, share heaven’s blessings with us, die and are buried in hallowed ground, come with us out of eternity and return into eternity. ‘Our little lives are rounded with a sleep.’
~John Muir
Because reasons Sean Schmidt.
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A nice read to wake up to 🙂
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Good morning Dr. John Cassone. 🙂
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gm 🙂
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The father of our natural parks system. Wouldn’t you have loved to have seen the west when it was truly pristine like he did? Wow
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Absolutely, Connie Thornley . I’m planning a trip to Yellowstone this summer/early fall, and I’ll be reading Muir along the way. 🙂
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Did you ever see this series by Ken Burns?
THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA is a six-episode series produced by Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan and written by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature’s most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska – THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA’S BEST IDEA is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.
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Oh, yes…I saw some of it, but need to go back and re-watch the whole thing. THANK YOU for the reminder, Connie Thornley !
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