Wednesday, April 02, 2025

He makes his own tombstone

 Taking a sight upon a tree, I marked the place for memory, but in the morning, when there was light enough, I carved a name on a slab and placed it there. I knew not the day of his birth, but gave that of his death. His name, too, I placed there, although the place a man leaves is in the hearts of those he leaves behind, and in his work, not upon a slab.

(from Sackett's Land, by Louis L'Amour)

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