TRUTH AND NATURE, A COMMON TAPESTRY

TRUTH AND NATURE, A COMMON TAPESTRY

James R. Fisher, Jr., Ph.D.

© February 23, 2014

 

REFERENCE:

RW is a person I’ve only met once.  I have been a fan of her essays on the Dr. Donald Farr e-mail Network for some time.  Her words are descriptive of nature that are akin to her spirit.  Nature is her theatre and she blesses it and is blessed by it, and expresses that rapture with such joy that it becomes the reader’s as well.  I confessed to her in an earlier exchange that although from Iowa I have never been on a farm, never been into animals with the possible exception of the human species, and was ashamed of my ignorance.  Next time Betty and I are in Iowa she has agreed to give us an educational experience, which we are looking forward to.  In this essay she bridges her world with mine in a most kind way.

 

A READER WRITES   

 

TO OPENING the wonders of nature to you and Betty...would be much like you revealing your thoughts on mankind.  They are foreign one to the other. 

While an appreciation of nature takes complete immersion, I only see you completely lost in wild thoughts of mankind and the battle you do refining the various cultures and histories into a whole tapestry. 

You must deal with art, religion, schools of thought, and possess the complete dedication to sort among them to find truth.

Nature is easy, note and reflect, accept and appreciate.  Four directions: each its own way; the elements: fire, wind, water and to me light.  Nature reveals more mysteries than man's mind ever uncovers. 

Thomas Macaulay wrote much about man but he is dead to today's world.  A great shame his essays on life and death, his value of history is forgotten as today history omits much of the struggle to arrive at conclusions, as seen by many denying the basics of WWII. 

Thomas Merton was a chicken as he ducked much that you wrestle to the ground.  You rise again to battle yet again.  You embrace the machinery of fairness and correctness in the work place.  You have condensed daily life to the best one can squeeze from its overwhelming complications.

However, the world of man has lost its compass and morality is an eradicated word from the vocabulary of leaders.  What makes a leader would be a conflict in itself. 

Give me the snow melt and the world beneath it as is my world today...a new mystery tomorrow.  E.O. Wilson balances the world of nature and science in his study of ants, and applies it to man's struggle to work together.  This gives little to the ponderings your mind uncovers. 

As I have said before, walk on in your ponderings.  Great things can be revealed but only to those strong enough to endure. 

I often laugh at our cats spending hours watching for the voles to emerge from their nests, and Mark reminds me of the time I spend marveling and recording the comings and goings of the whole of Nature. 

Be well, Jim and Betty!  And, Betty, the day will arrive when you can spend your time in the luxury of staying home.  Your book could be life with Jim.  I know how hard it is to have a mate you have to knock on his head to enter his world.  Hands on face and pull it to yours as he is so completely immersed in his own world of thought. 

RW

 

DR. FISHER RESPONDS:

I feel blessed that I know RW, and I know my wife Betty does as well.  What is more authentic and true than to be one with nature?  Thank you, RW, and

Always be well,

Jim