N. Scott Momaday - May 3, Iyengar III

I picked up this beautiful little book - EARTH KEEPER Reflections on the American Land - at Maria’s in Durango. Took a crazy day trip there recently. My husband wanted a drive…I loved this piece, perfect for a rainy day. After class a student wrote to me and said she went outside and saw both sunlit rain and a double rainbow!

The waters tell of time. Always rivers run upon the earth and quench its thirst. Bright water carries our burdens across long distances. Without water we, and all that we know, would wither and die. We measure time by the flow of water as it passes us by. But in truth it is we who pass through time. Once I traveled on a great river though a canyon. The walls of the canyon were so old as to be timeless. There came a sunlit rain, and a double rainbow arched the river. There was mystery and meaning in my passage. I beheld things that others had beheld thousands of years ago. The earth is a place of wonder and beauty.