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I Did Not See It Passing . . .

I Did Not See It Passing . . . Ron Day Appalachian Heritage, Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 1998, pp. 16-17 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1998.0054 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435455/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:56 GMT from JHU Libraries HEIRLOOM Ron Day "Estimates of size, age of universe rise" said the headline in a recent issue of the Lexington Herald-Leader. I was not surprised. It could have grown by leaps and bounds without my being aware of it. I am often dismayed by the fact that now "I live in town." There was a time-mere decades ago-when I lived in the "world" instead. Being surrounded by beech trees and walking beneath migrating battal- ions of geese gave more information about the changing of the world than does living in apartments and walking beneath buzzing streetlights. My measurement of the world is now staccato and intermittent rather than linear. Before . . . things moved in a Une. The changing ofthe seasons was felt and observed in our daily lives as we trudged through deep snow to the spring where we collected our water. Eventually the winter would fade into spring and each day we would observe the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

I Did Not See It Passing . . .

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Appalachian Review , Volume 26 (1) – Jan 8, 2014
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Ron Day Appalachian Heritage, Volume 26, Number 1, Winter 1998, pp. 16-17 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1998.0054 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435455/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:56 GMT from JHU Libraries HEIRLOOM Ron Day "Estimates of size, age of universe rise" said the headline in a recent issue of the Lexington Herald-Leader. I was not surprised. It could have grown by leaps and bounds without my being aware of it. I am often dismayed by the fact that now "I live in town." There was a time-mere decades ago-when I lived in the "world" instead. Being surrounded by beech trees and walking beneath migrating battal- ions of geese gave more information about the changing of the world than does living in apartments and walking beneath buzzing streetlights. My measurement of the world is now staccato and intermittent rather than linear. Before . . . things moved in a Une. The changing ofthe seasons was felt and observed in our daily lives as we trudged through deep snow to the spring where we collected our water. Eventually the winter would fade into spring and each day we would observe the

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