For all the amazing achievements of mankind and how it inflates our ego, there’s a good way to reclaim some modesty- go visit some special places in nature that can still make you feel both small and grateful. Lake Tahoe is one of places.
I know my family visited there when I was a young child, but this was my first day in the park as an adult. The occasion was a gathering arranged by my wife’s children to give their mom a birthday gift – knowing Marty’s parents and friends had visited often from their homes in Santa Clara, CA.
As a person who gardens on a small scale, it’s humbling to see the overwhelming beauty of the Ponderosa Pine, and the various plant life that survive and thrive at every level of the forest. While people have made beautiful creations of our plant life, far beyond any of my skills, they are not the creator of the giant nursery, built over millions of years that now support our lives. Think of the variety of life that nature/God has given this planet in comparison to any other we know.
It is a day of Thanksgiving, indeed.
The Sloth
