Shadows

T&T Shadows at Trout Pool Bridge, Sacramento River Trail.

Just a short walk below the colossal dams on the Sacramento River--dams which have destroyed the habitat of so many fish and wildlife creatures--and which ended flooding and produced electricity--is the old bridge we call the "Trout Pool Bridge".

Some of our fathers and and grandfathers built these dams and bridges and were proud of their work.

Now most scientific studies seem to indicate that these incredible dams are the most destructive of all civil contractor's projects to their ecological surroundings.

Sometimes it seems to me that the best things we can leave behind us is just our shadows.

In fact, sometimes it seems to me that in the very long run
all we can leave behind is our shadows---

Tomasito, 2008



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Shadows

Shadows

There was a seer who was born an Oglala Sioux in the old days of the "Indian Wars" in America.

He had a vision--a hoop of the nation crossed by two roads--a good "red road" and a bad "black road"--and in the center where the roads crossed-- was a stick which became a tree and bloomed.

This was a symbol of hope to him.

You may read his life story in the book by John Neihardt: Black Elk Speaks published by the University of Nebraska Press ( first edition, 1933).

A good read.

Tomasito, 2008)


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