3.14.2014
a flush of life
...Thoreau's Journal: 14-Mar-1860
No sooner has the ice of Walden melted than the wind begins to play in dark ripples over the surface of the virgin water. It is affecting to see nature so tender, however old, and wearing none of the wrinkles of age. Ice dissolved is the next moment as perfect water as if it had been melted a million years. To see that which was lately so hard and immovable now so soft and impressible! What if our moods could dissolve thus completely? It is like a flush of life to a cheek that was dead.
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The miracle of renewal. It cast it's spell on we who are aging. It makes life, in all it's beauty and hope for the future, in our thoughts, and in our memories.
nature only cares about itself yet it has no contempt for anything,birth and rebirth as it has always been,it gives man one of his greatest gifts,if we could change our moods as fast as nature what masters we would be,anger,regret,the pain we dwell over all melt away like ice,we could cleanse our souls instantly. michael jameson oldantiqueguy@hotmail.com
Beautiful parallel with nature and the human condition are among my favorites, dear Henry.
One year ago I was commenting on mother nature as natural as breathing. A year later nature has shown her fury in Japan which is still unfolding with the collapse of the nuclear energy plants. What will be the end of this might be unimaginable.
or to see the violent scenes of the tsunami then 2 days later a man drifts calmly in still waters to survive on a raft made out of his roof, 15km from home. 2 weeks ago here in new england I could never imagine spring, buried underneath feet of snow. yet here it is already!
As this will be my 74th spring, I will take it, earthquake, tsunami, or even the dangers of nuclear energy. Viva La Spring.
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