Sunset

 Sunset

on the trees

touches my 

spirit

Sunset

through the trees

Touches my heart

I find that if it is sunny outside I go outside first thing even before I have breakfast and greet the day. Somehow greeting the day and the sun makes the day go better. Likewise, at sunset saying goodbye to the sun until tomorrow morning also makes the night go better too.

Touching nature heals us all because nature is real and what we build is mostly human art, even our houses and tall buildings and cars are a mixture of Art and science.

So, I see houses and buildings and cars and roads as human art forms mostly for better or for worse.

However, I have also lived with no power (electricity) for months at a time in an A-frame in the woods with my family in the early 1980s. And I was in heaven even with no TV or electric lights or even refrigeration. We bought an antique cook stove where we could still bake bread and cakes and everything else and heated our A-Frame home with another Wood stove that my father welded up for me by converting a water pressure tank into our wood stove that heated our home. We also bought a giant clawfoot antique bath tub for the kids. The one that is about 7 feet long and up on clawfeet like in the old days.

In the 1980s (unlike now) it often snowed 7 feet of snow out at the A-Frame. I built an A-Frame so that it would shed snow rather than break the roof and collapse it because an A-Frame has a very steep roof so often if you are below about 6000 to 7000 feet in elevation your roof won't collapse if you aren't there to remove the snow. I built a 2 story A-Frame so the top story was like a loft we reached with a ladder and we all slept upstairs in the loft because it got very cold in the winter time and the heat from the stove rose to the highest level and kept us warm through the night from the wood stove. We got Candles with reflectors so we could read at night and downstairs we had Aladdin Kerosene lamps which are very bright. But, you have to get used to the smell of kerosene burning if you want to use them. You can get lampshades for them because they are very bright burning. Our 2 1/2 acres of land was at 4000 feet elevation on Mt. Shasta and had a beautiful perfect view of the whole mountain so sunrises and sunsets were almost always gorgeous unless the mountain was occluded with fog or clouds.

So,

Sunrise and Sunset

are markers of 

The wonderful

Life 

we can 

Live

 

 

By God's Grace