Brid, Erin and I are coming back into DC tonight (after I go out of DC this afternoon for a bit) to see some monuments. Brid wants to see the monuments in DC. Washington Monument. Lincoln Memorial. Jefferson Memorial. Those sort of monuments.
I'm sure - I know - that everyone has their faults. Those memorialized in monuments and the rest of us, too. In the glare of media - new and old - the faults just seem a bit bigger these days. I doubt that they are. We are just hungry for big faults and the supply rises up to meet the demand. The faults seem as monumental on the 6 o'clock news as the marble memorials in the National Mall.
I just have to wonder who will be memorialized in monuments 100 years from now, big warts and all. Whose monuments will Brid's grandchildren want to visit in DC in the summer heat in 2109?
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About Me
- Mark Gorman
- I was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, along the banks of the Susquehanna River, in the valley made up by Bald Eagle Mountain to the south, and gentle hills and valleys to the north. That place that sheltered me, gave me food and friends, and both physical and spiritual nourishment for 18 years. That is the space where I was physically and emotionally formed. Ever since growing up there . . . because of growing up there . . . I have been inexorably linked to nature . . . to the earth and to all life.