By Stu Whitley
Bio
This is the fifth in a five-part series.
Is there any joy to be found in sadness? I believe there is. Sadness is
almost always about loss. If we are able to examine in a
serious way the nature of that loss, I think we would find a validation
of what we took to be good. In other words, sadness can be a
reaffirmation of the virtues we hold dear. This can be a bit tricky
though. For example, if one regrets the passage of youth for its own
sake, enormous and ultimately futile effort is needed to ignore the
ceaseless transformation that the natural world presents.[
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By Stu Whitley
Bio
This post is the first in a five-part series.
As a young boy growing up in
England, I was consumed with tales of the ‘Dark Continent’. The memoirs
and descriptions of Burton, Speke, Livingston and Stanley enthralled
me, especially their references to the fabled graveyard of elephants,
where the fading behemoths of the Serengeti went to die. Trying to
conceive of a place like this was such an effort that it faltered on
the steps of my young imagination. The African elephant can live as
long as 70 years or more: the idea that this intelligent beast should
know its time nears and be drawn to a resting place with its kin seemed
fantastic.[
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Written by eldering at Learning
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