March 9th and at last we can sit outside in the springtime light and feel the warmth of the sun on our skin
I am pretty lucky to work in a great country environment with people who are good friends. Today was a delight sitting on the 'sun warmed' wooden benches and having a conversation over lunch.
I was really caught by something one of my friends, Lucinda, was saying. She had been reading a book ..a kind of 'post apocalypse' one called 'The Road' ( sounds like a good read!)
She was describing people travelling through a rather bleak America but the aspect which was a shining light in a dark world was a look from father to son which was a beacon of pure humanity. A few of us talking together all agreed that perhaps the most important of all things in our human world, is the preservation and growth of this softer side of life ..the kindness, the warmth and compassion.
It got me to thinking too - just how many generations we could trace back where such a look might have passed from father to son. Each father working to look afer, protect and provide a better opportunity of those they would leave behind them. I've seen it personally in my own father's eyes, in the father of my son, and now my son to his son ....
What a line ...an almost permanent line that would stretch back to distant forebears and ....one hopes far into the future.
Interesting comment about 'The Road'. This book sounds like a taste of what is to come. Humanity will win through, I can't see much of a future for many of the unfortunate aspects of the last century.
ReplyDeleteVery struck by the permanent line concept.
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