Riverboats and Bone Yards II |
Monday Feb 12 2007
By Stu Whitley
Bio
This is second in a five-part series.
Those paddlewheel steamers on the Yukon keenly awakened my sensibility
that all things—regardless of how grand or wonderfully complex at the
time—have their time. If we are lucky, they, like us, will live on in a
sweet memory, rife with nostalgic editing that carves away the worst.
Like
a distant love affair that once seemed to have held the very purpose of
life in its hands, it is possible to be reminded of happier moments
that, for reasons not quite understandable now, at a far remove were
incapable of sustaining themselves. There’s a mystic contemplation that
surrounds something we do not want to end.
Written by eldering at Learning
Tagged with: good-old-days love memory timelessness
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