Friday, April 25, 2008

Graveyard of my base.


An old 1800s cemetery neatly tuck in the corner of my Base. Even after all this years, the grass are well trimmed and there are flowers by the tombstones whose letters are almost eroded after more than a century of rain and sunshine.... I don't know who maintained it but I guess its the Janitor of our base. This is one of the very less publicized unique feature of our Base which was formally a Naval Air Station where the F-14 Tomcats took off and land. I bet no visitors ever walk past the abandon ATC Tower to marvel at the incredible peace and quiet of this plot of land characterized. Once a while in the early or late afternoon, I take a short walk around the cemetery just to have a moment of silence within this wild wild world (www)...

Sometimes we just have so much on our mind, its time to learn to let go of it for a minute or an hour and seek emptiness. When is the last time you just stop, sit down and think of nothing of the past and future but to just savor the peace of the moment? Many times we are just too preoccupied with unworthy worries that we forgot to just look at the greenery around, the calm trees and flowers.

Breath in deep and breath out. If there is one thing important to mankind...it got to be oxygen. Without food and water, you can survive a day. Without oxygen? You'll be dead in a few minutes. So whenever you are depressed, stressed or just feeling down in anyway... go to somewhere where there is only you and nature and not a human soul around, maybe the beach, maybe a plot of land with a single tree...sit down, look around and breath...

This embossed text are the only legible literature I found.

"The earliest marked grave of J.H Snow dates to 1864, though unmarked graves may date earlier. Members of the pioneer Grand Prairie families, infant and veterans of the Spanish-American War and WWI are among those interred here. The last burial took place on 1951"

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