Troy this was beautiful. Thank you for sharing your heart. Brought a tear to my eyes. I didn't know you wrote it for your father when I read it but I felt a father figure close by so to no surprise I saw it afterwards in Elena's comment. Thank you ✨
Thank you for both the love and the support. This is definitely one I hold dear to my heart, and the poem the broke open the floodgates of writing again. Grief is a powerful messenger.
Thank you, Elena. I wrote this on what would have been my father's 76th birthday. He had passed one year and five days before, so I chose his birthday as the day to spread his ashes beneath a giant sequoia that I love. The photo above is from that moment in December of 2020. I return to this place as often as I am able, to both celebrate his life and the love of nature that he embroidered my life with.
This sequoia stands in Crescent Meadow, in Sequoia National Park. It is only four hours from Los Angeles, but feels like a whole other time and place. I also love the redwoods of NorCal, and we try to get up to them at least once a year. The feel of a rainforest after years of living in a desert always seems to supercharge my soul. Have you visited them?
What a beautiful moment, this “dance of ancestry.” I love the mirroring of sixty-seven and seventy-six. They fit together like a hand clasp.
Like a prayer! Thank you, Julie. Wishing you the happiest holidays.
God, what truly great lines: "shifting an ancient cathedral into a phantasmagoric dance of ancestry."
This is my favorite poem. Thank you for seeing that line. It means the world.
, beautiful !
Thank you!
Troy this was beautiful. Thank you for sharing your heart. Brought a tear to my eyes. I didn't know you wrote it for your father when I read it but I felt a father figure close by so to no surprise I saw it afterwards in Elena's comment. Thank you ✨
Thank you for both the love and the support. This is definitely one I hold dear to my heart, and the poem the broke open the floodgates of writing again. Grief is a powerful messenger.
Really beautiful! Thanks for sharing
Thank you for taking the time to read it and message me! I appreciate you.
Just beautiful--moving.
Thank you. This is a special one to me.
Dearest Troy. Tell us more. For whom is this written? Beautiful.
Thank you, Elena. I wrote this on what would have been my father's 76th birthday. He had passed one year and five days before, so I chose his birthday as the day to spread his ashes beneath a giant sequoia that I love. The photo above is from that moment in December of 2020. I return to this place as often as I am able, to both celebrate his life and the love of nature that he embroidered my life with.
wonderful. and where is that beautiful sequoia? n. cali?
This sequoia stands in Crescent Meadow, in Sequoia National Park. It is only four hours from Los Angeles, but feels like a whole other time and place. I also love the redwoods of NorCal, and we try to get up to them at least once a year. The feel of a rainforest after years of living in a desert always seems to supercharge my soul. Have you visited them?
I have visited them... i knew it. I've been to that exact tree. 1997. One of the most magical and important trips of my life.
I love that! Yes, it's absolutely the kind of place that shifts us with wonder and awe.