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Fenced in, Fenced Out

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From Sea Ranch in Northern California to our old ranch in South Dakota, rustic fences predominate in these photos.  That fence hardly seems sufficient to fence in a dinosaur, but it has been keeping it confined for at least sixty years, when is when I first witnessed the concrete beast on my way to the Black Hills in Dakota. Petrified gardens and Wall Drug were must sees then, and still are.   This cemetery sign is right across the street from the last remaining piece of land we still own in South Dakota.

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                                                                     Prairie Grass

IMG_0108Prairie grass waves over the spot where my parents’ house used to be. Its roof was blown away in a tornado years ago and the house leveled, the basement filled in. What physical remnants of my past remain beneath this dirt I’ll never know as members of the family were all far-distant when the tornado hit and no one ever went to clear out items stored in the basement. I’m told townspeople came in and scavenged in the basement before it was filled in.  A friend took my childhood books for her children.  I have no idea where other letters, books, trophies and assorted treasures from my past ended up. Perhaps they are buried there.

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Across the dirt road is the cemetery where we all will lie beneath prairie grass one day. Yes, I was moved to tears both by the beauty and the inevitability that all our fuss and bother will result in this simplicity. We rise from the earth, feed on it and in return are fed upon. No person is so special as to survive the inevitable leveling force of nature.

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Daily Prompt: In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “Moved to Tears.” Describe the last time you were moved to tears by something beautiful.