Heading northward towards Keene, New Hampshire, I saw a sign for the Massachusetts Veterans' Memorial Cemetery in Winchendon, MA.
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| Massachusetts Veterans' Memorial Cemetery |
Having just watched
Act of Valor, a movie based on actual US Navy Seal operations, I found my way to the cemetery to pay my respects.
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| Time Passes |
One of the movie Seals dies while saving his comrades in an extraordinary act of valor. The film concludes with an effort to make sense of life and death, quoting from a poem (excerpted here) by Native American Chief Tecumseh:
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| Flowers |
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are
filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep
and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a
different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
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| After the Swim (Walden Pond) |
Transendentalist
Henry David Thoreau, author of
Walden, chose living in the woods to make sense of living and dying:
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| Walden on my Mind |
I went to the woods because I wished to live
deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I
could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived.
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| Book of Life |
Parallel phrasings, yet perpendicular paths.
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