A Couple of Arresting Images . . .
I have a busy morning ahead of me even though I rose early -- 3:00 a.m. as usual -- so I thought that I'd just blog briefly by posting a couple of arresting images for readers to contemplate.
The first photo is borrowed from Google Images and shows the tombstone of the Reverend Billy Graham's deceased wife:
In case the wording engraved thereon is illegible, the Chinese character means "Righteousness" (or so I'm told), and as for the English -- which she borrowed from a road-construction sign that she'd once encountered after driving over miles of roadwork -- here's what that wording says:
Ruth Bell Graham
June 10, 1920 - June 14, 2007
"End of Construction --
Thank you for your patience"
I appreciate a good, morbid sense of humor, but I guess I'll have to come up with an epitaph of my own. I wonder if Derrida's reads something like this:
Jacques Derrida
July 15, 1930 - October 9, 2004
"End of Deconstruction --
Thank you for your extreme patience"
The other image is an arresting one for me, a photo by Tim Ernst of this autumn's colors in the Arkansas Ozarks:
I'm calling it "Fall in Love" -- though Mr. Ernst likely has some other title -- because I love looking at this image of fall, which reminds me of my boyhood home far away on the other side of the world. I may be a city boy now, living here in Seoul, but in my soul of souls -- something like a heart of hearts -- I'm still an Ozark lad.
I check Mr. Ernst's website every morning for an Ozark image . . . just to help keep myself sane.
Labels: Autumn, Death, Fall, Ozark Mountains
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 4:22 AM
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8 Comments:
I was in a cemetery south of Waco, looking up the grave of a mutua acquaintance, L. Shoaf, and I saw a marker nearby that said "I Told You I Was Sick."
autumn's colors in the Arkansas Ozarks
oh... w-w-w-o-o-o-w-w-w-w-w...
Tom, I still don't believe him -- he was just putting on and ended up convincing himself.
Jeffery Hodges
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Wow is right, but I never knew till I moved away.
Jeffery Hodges
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The Fall colors have been better this year than I can remember for some time. Amazing considering the extreme heat and drought of the Summer. Maine in Fall may be better known, however; I would not trade the blaze of Ozark Fall colors for any other place!
Jay
Me, neither, Jay . . . though I can do without the Arkansas summer's heat and humidity.
Jeffery Hodges
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I would love to be back in the mountains of North Georgia (USA, of course) walking a creek much like that fishing and taking pictures...
"Satisfied with the fish on the line . . ."
Jeffery Hodges
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