Loren Eiseley is one of my heroes as well...been on my ten best list since the eighties. So many high points...I remember just now his story about running away (as a ten year old perhaps) from his deaf mother...and the regret he afterwards suffered. So much heart. So much grit. So much courage to face the things he'd done. Gave me courage....
I spoke to my class last night about where we get our moral foundations. Church, community, peers, family all came up. But one of my paramount memories of trying to shape myself comes from a story I read (I have no idea now where) about a very rich woman who gave a party where one of the attendees broke a very ancient Ming vase. She greeted his torrent of apologies with "Don't worry, it was just an old thing anyway". I resolved then and there to be so unattached to material things that I could someday be so gracious. It has made a difference.
Ursula -------------------------------------- Veronica Caley wrote:
Something written by Loren Eisley. As fine a writer as I have ever read that goes right to the heart. The passage that I still remember from his work was about a tree he and his father planted when he was very little. Nearing the end of his life, he went back and looked for it. It had been cut down.This brought both of us to tears - he when he saw it gone and me when I read it. I don't cry easily. If I did, I wouldn't be on this list. You really ought to be writing and writing.Veronica the fool, applying for a position with King Lear
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