{"id":306,"date":"2011-05-14T05:24:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T12:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.205.130\/?p=306"},"modified":"2011-05-25T05:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T12:29:00","slug":"light-as-a-feather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Light as a Feather"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Sharon’s Blog:<\/em><\/p>\n

Yesterday evening I stopped by my husband\u2019s grave.\u00a0 Near his gravestone are two small trees we planted\u00a0that now\u00a0reach two to three feet\u00a0of height.\u00a0 Dangling among the branches were several lovely feathers an anonymous friend of Lewis\u2019 had attached in his honor.\u00a0\u00a0My tears began to flow as I recognized their kindness\u00a0and how the friend must remember Lewis\u2019\u00a0love of\u00a0fine-feathered tetrapods and their\u00a0vaned plumes. He\u00a0would keep his feather collections\u00a0in\u00a0bottles or\u00a0in his top drawer or at his office on a shelf.<\/p>\n

Sometimes he would take time with adults or children in the practice to share his feather cache of the\u00a0week.<\/p>\n

The day of his\u00a0burial\u00a0I went to his office and found a large jar\u00a0filled with a\u00a0variety of feathered specimens.\u00a0 I brought it to the burial\u00a0and invited friends and family\u00a0to decorate\u00a0his burial urn with feathers in his honor.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later our office manager stopped by the gravesite and found an owl resting on his stone and later that year I found an owl feather in its shadow.\u00a0 Nature itself honors him.<\/p>\n

I am thinking more this morning about my dear husband and was struck by this thought:<\/p>\n

Lewis\u00a0had an incredible lightness of being and was never a burden to love.\u00a0\u00a0 A feather, then, is a perfect tribute to his memory.<\/p>\n

I googled and found an apt\u00a0poem by Eileen T. Waldron<\/a> from which I have lifted (and repositioned a bit) these fragments:<\/p>\n

Light as a feather<\/em>
\nDancing on air<\/em><\/h3>\n

Nothing to hinder<\/em>
\nFlightless no more<\/em>
\nWind is my passion<\/em>
\nWith it I soar<\/em><\/h3>\n

Like Eagles on thermals<\/em>
\nI have been freed<\/em>
\nTo fly over rainbows<\/em>
\nWith dauntless wings<\/em><\/h3>\n

The sky ever beckons<\/em>
\nWith new joys to share<\/em>
\nI\u2019m light as a feather<\/em>
\nDancing on air<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Sharon’s Blog: Yesterday evening I stopped by my husband\u2019s grave.\u00a0 Near his gravestone are two small trees we planted\u00a0that now\u00a0reach two to three feet\u00a0of height.\u00a0 Dangling among the branches were several lovely feathers an anonymous friend of Lewis\u2019 had attached in his honor.\u00a0\u00a0My tears began to flow as I recognized their kindness\u00a0and how the … Continue reading “Light as a Feather”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewismoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}