This is my work, To keep this world green, Keep it all green. I began in the East, to help my friends. I keep this world green, Keep it beautiful. I begin to fill the creeks, To wet everything, Keep it beautiful and green, I begin in the East, Make everything beautiful! That is my work.
~ from THE MASCOUTENS by Alanson Skinner -- 1924
Perhaps a huge silence might interrupt the sadness
If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt the sadness of never understanding ourselves.
