That’s one of hundreds remarkable quotes from Brian Doyle, from the most recently published book of his absolutely mind and heart bending essays titled, “One Long River of Song.”
There are webcams everywhere, watching our every movement in cities across the U.S. and many other countries. There are cameras I have set up in the woods to capture the movement of animals and of rivers flooding over their banks.
Of all things, an Oregon Department of Transportation camera showing a remote wintry scene, a week ago, caught a photograph of what COULD ONLY BE Bigfoot. My wife thought it looked like a tree, but on closer look (read aloud the title quote of this Blog!).
Joselyn Atkins, a top notch wildlife biologist has been tracking carnivores in the middle of nowhere Oregon and Washington wildernesses, and one of her cameras spotted a wolverine on Mt. Adams, where the largest of the Mustelids hadn’t been seen…forever because….”Maybe there is much….”
We drive through and past the American desert lands because we don’t see much, recognize much, nor appreciate treeless, water-less landscapes. Yet, if you’ve ever spent some time walking and sitting in arid country, life is everywhere, especially at night and oh man…especially during those eye popping spring blooms. May there is much where we think….
Sometimes people, too many youth, can be judged through the narrowest of lens when we make the inexcusable mistake to conclude “Not much there,” A troublemaker, Someone with no future.” We love to bandy about putdowns.
And then lo and behold that same individual makes the team, becomes the first celloist in the orchestra, excels at college, excels at life. Because all people have promise; all people have worth, all people have much even when others may wrongly think there is nothing. ~