Aerie InternationaL - Missoula County Public Schools

is not cool, but bitter and invasive of even the finest, state-of-the-art
coats. These seasons crash together, quarreling over whose time it is to
go, fleeting by and bleeding together with all the beauty and violence of
time, all the wild rush of horses.
And that is how my people and I live, in this balance of nature and
man, of summer and winter, of wilderness and
the cool calm of suburbia. We will never
stop trying to do our righteous battle with
the miraculous aspen saplings that find their
ways into the creases of sidewalks, with the
snow that pays no heed to grass or street,
with deer that pace in and taste at the leaves
of rose bushes. We push Nature, and she
pushes us, and we hang there together,
suspended and whole in conflict and unity.
There are few horses here. But I think I will ride out my life between
mountains and city just as well, watching the wilderness trickle through
the concrete cracks.
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We push Nature,
and she pushes us,
and we hang there
together, suspended
and whole in
conflict and unity.