Allen stands inside one of the redwoods at Pfeiffer State Park in Big Sur.Everything at Big Sur humbles you, reminds you of your smallness.
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- Theresa Williams
- Northwest Ohio, United States
- "I was no better than dust, yet you cannot replace me. . . Take the soft dust in your hand--does it stir: does it sing? Has it lips and a heart? Does it open its eyes to the sun? Does it run, does it dream, does it burn with a secret, or tremble In terror of death? Or ache with tremendous decisions?. . ." --Conrad Aiken
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Fave Painting: The Three Ages of Man and Death
by Albrecht Dürer
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The Secret of Hurricanes : That article in the Waterville Scout said it was Shake- spearean, all that fatalism that guides the Kennedys' lives. The likelihood of untimely death. Recently, another one died in his prime, John-John in an airplane. Not long before that, Bobby's boy. While playing football at high speeds on snow skis. Those Kennedys take some crazy chances. I prefer my own easy ways. Which isn't to say my life hasn't been Shake-spearean. By the time I was sixteen, my life was like the darkened stage at the end of Hamlet or Macbeth. All littered with corpses and treachery.
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2 comments:
How could we dare to cut one of these trees down? It seems an inhuman act to kill such beautiful evidence of struggle, survival, and growth, and yet people do, if not here, in rain forests. Allen must have felt like he'd eaten the wrong mushroom or teacake to find himself in this Alice in Wonderland scene come to life. Teagrapple Rae
How incredibly beautiful...thanks for posting the pics, Theresa...I've only been to Big Sur once, a zillion years ago, but I agree with what you said, that everything at Big Sur humbles us and reminds us of our smallness...and that is a good thing, I think...
Judi
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