Sunday, October 25, 2009

ON LIFE


"A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we came, and into nowhere we go. What is life? It is as a flash of a firefly in the night. It is as the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Crowfoot, chief of the Blackfoot Indians (1890)


For this weeks Sunday Cirar I have chosen a quote that appeared in the obituary of an elderly neighbor who passed away this week. Hugh was a retired school teacher, a poet, a lover of nature and a real "gentleman." He moved away a few years ago, but while he lived here he would always stop to chat with my husband whenever he saw him outside while on his daily walks. He loved to talk about birds and other things of nature that he witnessed on his many walks through the orchards and woods, and they were the subject of most of his wonderful poetry.

We last saw Hugh while shopping last winter when he told us he was diagnosed with lung cancer...although he never smoked in his life.

I loved his choice of a quote because I know it reflected his love of nature and his outlook on life. I chose the above picture because it is the view he would have seen many times over throughout the years on his beloved walks.

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5 comments:

  1. That is a beautiful quote. I find it really scary you can get lung cancer and never smoke.

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  2. thank you for sharing this beautiful post!

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  3. My deepest condolences on loosing your friend and neighbor! A very nice quote indeed!

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  4. Lovely words and picture to commemorate a friend that loved nature.

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  5. What a truly lovely quote. What a tribute to your friend and neighbour. Thanks for sharing it.

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