Inosculate
In the search
for a
higher ground
One never
travels
alone
The past
a constant
companion
"New occasions
teach new
duties"
Love provides
a working
guide
Justice
validates the
trek
Labor
employs the
tools
Faith-eating
platitudes
censured
Moral nausea
eased with
compassion
Probity refusing
to appease
moral decay
Unrelenting care
for the weak and
vulnerable
Recycle anger's
energy to
resist evil
Visions
tempered by
flexible hope
*from the hymn, Once to Every Man and Nation
Covered wagons on the way up to Cripple Creek.
We pulled our '64 Volkswagen truck over and asked if we could pose a picture. I can only imagine the life and work of those whose lives were served by the covered wagon. I do know that before I owned the truck, my Dad used it to haul storm damaged walnut trees into his high school workshop to teach woodworking. The scene is a reminder of the vision and energy of those who have gone on before. The challenge is to draw on that memory as we continue our search for higher ground.
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