Sunday, December 5, 2010

night veiws



 
Night pictures
                There are things, places or people that we see every day that we never really notice until they are in a different light. Horizons are one of these, people dive to work in the morning and never realize that the direction they are going has some of the world’s most spectacular colors at dusk. I have driven on the same road for ten years. Never once in that time did I realize the tree just off the road to the west could be one of the most amazing figures of the night. Last year as I drove to Laurel via back roads to feed in the dark. This tree was there lit up by a light directly under it.
                That moment that tree represented my life. It just stood there, alone. People seen it every day, there was nothing special, or perfect about it. If it had been cut down most would’ve probably never noticed. I would have never noticed. But it wasn’t cut down, or set on fire, or trimmed to be perfect. It was light up with two white lights. The people who bought the land the tree resided on gave it a purpose. I connected with the meaning it had for me. They did to that tree; the same thing having a child did for me. They gave its being a purpose.   

 

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