tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523119069927007782.post6300094793192955501..comments2024-03-22T03:25:33.404-07:00Comments on The Narrative Image: Eagle Creek Fire Jumps Over the Columbia: Childless Adults Even More Thankful to be Childless.Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09318559366411269563noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523119069927007782.post-26749066752794216952017-09-12T12:27:52.066-07:002017-09-12T12:27:52.066-07:00Crowdancer5,
If your metaphor is chosen carefully...Crowdancer5,<br /><br />If your metaphor is chosen carefully, if it is our ‘mother’ who has been ‘hurt’ or ‘damaged’, then we children, it would seem, are obligated to minimize our impact and work to ensure our mother’s health. I don’t think we can escape our role. We are truly children of this Earth. Our problem I suppose is we are still babies, thinking mostly of ways to gratify our immediate urges, or worse, arrogant teens thinking we know more than our parents.<br /> <br />We have information and data available to us that we didn’t have when we came through here before, damming up the rivers and clear cutting the forests. We have better ideas about how to minimize the impact of our encroaching cities, roads and parking lots. I think there is much we can do and ought to do, from strategic replanting, to erosion control, to ideas about sustainable living.<br /><br />Mom is beautiful and all, but she’s been known to go overboard with the discipline. The thing is, if we children don’t start behaving, Mom’s going to kill us.<br />Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09318559366411269563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523119069927007782.post-47886190965180351612017-09-11T21:53:18.887-07:002017-09-11T21:53:18.887-07:00You can not make it well again....man only does mo...You can not make it well again....man only does more damage when he tries to "fix" the Mother. If they simply keep the public out for a few years, you will slowly watch the phoenix rise. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03630931469371060396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523119069927007782.post-2132785313327066312017-09-11T21:50:36.561-07:002017-09-11T21:50:36.561-07:00She will heal herself.......man can not fix....he ...She will heal herself.......man can not fix....he only does more damage........keep folks out for a few years and watch the pheonix rise again<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03630931469371060396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523119069927007782.post-38788773759971584962017-09-08T22:19:04.847-07:002017-09-08T22:19:04.847-07:00Anonymous,
Thank you for your comment. Having pa...Anonymous,<br /><br />Thank you for your comment. Having paddled down the John Day River a time or two myself, I appreciate your understanding of geologic time and I think I appreciate your understanding of change from a planetary perspective — or perhaps even from an infinite God’s perspective. I am also trying to appreciate the surety of your faith and hope that it provides some comfort for you (at least). But I have to say, also, that I am in no way convinced that ‘all is well.’ <br /><br />Your comment makes me wonder if my own ponderings may not appear naive to the family staring at the charred foundations of their house. After-all, my risk in this episode of destruction is mostly second-hand — I have friends who have houses a t risk. The worst thing that will probably happen to me is that some of my leisure-time scenery is changing.<br /><br />I admit It was my intent to find some positive thing to look forward too — some hope, some way to mitigate the damage, but with the fire uncontained, maybe it is too soon and maybe I’m not the one to be saying it. <br /><br />You have reminded me how my community of faith once re-assured me that my father’s cancer was all a part of God’s good plan. That was almost 40 years ago (When dad died). Since then I’ve tried to practice faith and give God the benefit of a doubt. But my gut instinct remains. I don’t feel as if it was a very good plan.<br /><br />I guess the thing I want to figure out now, is what can I do to make it ‘well’ again.<br />Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09318559366411269563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523119069927007782.post-46068879582320724532017-09-08T21:07:43.249-07:002017-09-08T21:07:43.249-07:00Having done the John Day fossil loop twice this su...Having done the John Day fossil loop twice this summer with grandkids this bit about how the area was born from total disaster really "fits". It may take a long time, but nothing on this earth is forever and change is always happening. God IS and all is well no matter how bleak things may appear in any given moment.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523119069927007782.post-39499893422501178822017-09-08T15:33:10.366-07:002017-09-08T15:33:10.366-07:00Beautifully written, and amazing photography to go...Beautifully written, and amazing photography to go with it! Normally in the past, this is the sort of thing I would have been doing that night as well, but instead I was busy packing and moving this time and get to enjoy such words as you have written. Well done! Random Acts of Thoughtfullness - Darlisa Blackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03180087378086116615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523119069927007782.post-10352833255307672802017-09-07T11:28:20.708-07:002017-09-07T11:28:20.708-07:00Your comments are appreciated and equally emotiona...Your comments are appreciated and equally emotional. Yes, reminded that the very Gorge landscape we love is a result of constant evolution and change. The metaphor is plain as the ash on my porch. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12970008423357686535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4523119069927007782.post-91370606894338485002017-09-06T00:07:11.465-07:002017-09-06T00:07:11.465-07:00Really scary. Hope that was a very long lens you w...Really scary. Hope that was a very long lens you were using....~ Rnoreply@blogger.com