Inside The Toshodaiji Temple, Nara, Japan
1 O1 A/ O( x \ I did take a picture . n# y7 b/ I0 O! F3 [ _
of the small temple
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! z0 q$ {* w4 M2 T3 O4 _4 s6 ~behind this wall.+ B" _: q. e! ]% V) |7 j
But what moved me
" [" u" V' K: c5 k! h7 zwas the mossy surface
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Street Front In Butte, Montana Early morning,% x4 ~. t$ q) L
not a soul on the streets of Butte, Montana.
5 q5 R- h2 _; ?& y; x% JIt was as if I had walked into my favorite painting
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"Early Sunday Morning", painted in 1930.' [) l9 ^4 ]: K) E) r1 a
It was Sunday, indeed. Indian Cemetery In Montana The wooden church next to the Indian Cemetery ( ?* s$ O7 J' Q1 _1 U; S
was all boarded up.
1 Y& n+ P% ~! x) c; e! I0 PI walked around for an hour / Y) A& }" ~0 v) r+ W `
and read all the names on the graves.
$ C- k" L4 R0 i" w( e5 FSome of the men had died in the Vietnam war.+ m1 K$ A8 C: A7 F! e9 \
Travelling Wolf had died before.+ g/ O# `' x" Y% |
According to the cross on his grave% T% [6 p R/ G) Z3 u
he was 22 years old,+ V7 D/ m) t! V5 C( A( ~
when Edward Curtis photographed the Blackfeet Indians9 L: C5 z6 q* S, ?: c5 l
in this part of Montana, in the year 1900.
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