This morning as usual I went out to get the
paper..reluctant to read todays bad news about incendiary speech and devices….
I brought the paper back to read in bed and noticed a letter on the floor…dated
1946 it was a letter written by my father James White to his mother back in Waco,Texas…describing
what he saw in Olympia, Washington as he was in military training…(later
stationed in Japan)
“at sunset I was alone on top of their
Capitol building and never saw a more beautiful outlay of forms in my life..Mt
Rainier could be seen to the east just a pinnacle of sow and mist..the moon
with its half orb of soft tints and glows to the South and the Sun settling
down into its bed of rosy hues in the west..their legislative building was of
streaked granite and white limestone-with a touch of white marble as
cornices..Such beauty-by man and the Architect of the Universe is not
understandable to me.It is an unfinished desire which seems to have no answer:
a mere long for which I must ever conjure up faulty reasons as final
answers”…..later on in the letter he speaks of trips planned to Seattle and
Vancouver…”I get so saturated with the
present that I forget too much of the past Good Life I shared with family,
friends and those whose aspirations I shared. This world was not made just to
to be probed into and ogled at: Friendship and Home Life are the true aim. I
will not cheat myself by passing lightly over these things: they are
everthing!”Love JC
Ps This leaf is an
elm whose descendents George Washington stood under and took command of US Army
July 3, 1775) (actual leaf long crumbled and gone now)
So
thank you Dad for reaching out to me over 72 years. Once again I know where I
got my search for beauty and connection to others…I got it from you. Thanks
for reminding me to always affirm beauty
in this world and to build rich relationships with others. Thanks Dad
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