the garden’s change is constant & accelerated in this Summer’s heat. Fleeting beauty isn’t lingering for long this year. I long all Winter for these moments and this year the pace is faster. Visible changes within a day or two rather than loitering around for a week.
natural, imperfect, beauty
Alaska’s landscape never disappoints to make one feel, one’s proper place in life’s challenges. It provides scale; it provides challenges. This was near Glacier Bay.
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe…It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.” Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire
