What Invisible Something
holds the Sierra Nevada Mountains up? What sustains the giant sequoias as they
grow to be 30 feet around, 300 feet tall, and live for 3000 years? What
inspires the rivers to dance and sing in the cascades?
In his “Autumn” poem, Rilke
says that everything is falling — “the heavy earth is falling away from all the
other stars in the loneliness.” I feel this at times, the heaviness, the
sorrow, despair, the general listless dragging down toward earth.
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