SPIRIT is the City Daily Photo group's theme day topic.
This disintegrating trunk of a burnt tree on a white boulder reminds me, in a reverse sort of way, what I read years ago concerning the Great Spirit.
Tatanga Mani, a Stoney Indian, said on page 106 of Touch the Earth: A Self Portrait of Indian Existence by T.C. McLuhan this wisdom:
You know, if you take all your books, lay them out under the sun, and let the snow and rain and insects work on them for a while, there will be nothing left. But the Great Spirit has provided you and me with an opportunity for study in nature's university, the forests, the rivers, the mountains, and the animals which include us..
