Wednesday, July 7, 2010
A Delicate Balance
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Amazing. This huge, ancient evergreen was uprooted when hurricane force winds blew through our area twice just before Independence Day. I drive past this cemetery frequently, but until they cleared the branches from the trunk, I had not realized...
...that it was held up by a single tombstone. Imagine the shock to the old bones below!
Another day or two and they will have cleared the entire thing away. Soon the only memories of the huge storms of summer 2010 will be newly sunny flower beds, and fresh shingles.
"The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude." -- Voltaire
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On solitude and chickens
- I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. -- Thoreau
- There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. -- Colette
- I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. -- Rilke
- As innocent as a new-laid egg. -- W. S. Gilbert
- Raising children is like being pecked to death by chickens. --Anonymous, but my mother gave it to me!
- Language...has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. --Paul Johannes Tillich
- Life begins when you plant a garden. -- Chinese proverb
- The great omission in American life is solitude...that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. --Marya Mannes
- If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. -- Russian proverb
- When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. --Antonio Porchia
- Cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the eggs. -- Attr. Margaret Thatcher
- I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. -- Henry David Thoreau
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What We're Reading
- White Truffles in Winter (Kelby)
- The Night Circus (Morgenstern)
- The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (McCullough)
- My Name is Grace (Hanover)
- In Harm's Way (Stanton)
- Oh, Johnny! (Lehrer)
- State of Wonder (Patchett)
- Shadow of the Wind (Zafon)
- At Home (Bryson)
- In the Garden of Beasts (Larson)
- Black and Blue (Quindlan)
- The Princess Bride (Goldman)
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What We're Listening To
- Best of Leonard Cohen
- Just Across the River (Jimmy Webb)
- Georgia Hard (Robbie Fulks)
- Between the Lines (Janis Ian)
- Country Club (John Doe & The Sadies)
- Bible Belt (Diane Birch)
- Somebody Else's Troubles (Steve Goodman)
- Sundown Lady (Lani Hall)
- The Splendid Table (podcast)
- The Alternative Kitchen Garden (podcast)
- Raising Sand (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss)
- Good for What Ails Ya (Patent Medicine)
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Miranda Lambert)
- The Edge of the World (Buddy Mondlock)
2 comments:
Amazing. Obviously the old soul who lies there was a very strong person on this Earth, that's why their tombstone held the tree rather than being smashed by it. Awesome pic - thanks for sharing!
Aw, what a loss. We have a few giant oaks on our place in the yard part of our property. I'm always scared a big storm is going to get one of them.
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