I visited the beautiful Old North Cemetery last fall in search of a gravestone that remains quite elusive. It is a stone that marks the final resting place of a Concord soldier that served our country during the War of 1812. On this particular fall.
Were he here, Frederick Law Olmstead, the famed landscape designer who helped create at least 30 Gilded Age estates in the Berkshires, would urge us to protect his beloved Berkshires
As I walk through the forest late one spring day the rain is gently falling from the overcast sky. Nature provides a soothing sound to me as last falls deep covering of maple and oak leaves are impacted by the droplets of rain. I am alone and deep in.
On the day we are born we are provided with a very unique gift, a name that we will carry until our very last day. This name we provide will coincide with our last name also acquired at birth. Sometimes the name is a good match and sometimes it is.