Inside The Toshodaiji Temple, Nara, Japan
3 B; ]# |/ |! {" W4 }% Y7 T I did take a picture
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and the urn under its roof,
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But what moved me+ Z o' a7 k- ]: N! _2 P
was the mossy surface) F( g+ w) _+ Z9 K2 ?( O0 \; x
of the grey stone.; w5 E( a# I# {5 e
Street Front In Butte, Montana Early morning,
$ g& L6 A1 q: Q1 a5 {not a soul on the streets of Butte, Montana.! L8 Q- f, ~: T
It was as if I had walked into my favorite painting
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9 N2 }" b- g3 g- j7 I+ V1 T"Early Sunday Morning", painted in 1930.% m3 n% j! F6 w! V. H+ j
It was Sunday, indeed. Indian Cemetery In Montana The wooden church next to the Indian Cemetery
G# V! B$ v3 g" |& X. _7 \6 I2 p8 Bwas all boarded up.
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and read all the names on the graves.; D( h4 c7 m* a! N, G6 n
Some of the men had died in the Vietnam war.
, Y* S; b1 S7 A8 FTravelling Wolf had died before.
6 v" K5 R9 Q5 k: z& I- [, TAccording to the cross on his grave
) J2 m! j$ ^/ a' Q, E0 ohe was 22 years old," D( ]! \1 F, a) K
when Edward Curtis photographed the Blackfeet Indians, E: T4 d3 d# K/ G M( [7 O- Q2 l% p
in this part of Montana, in the year 1900.
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