Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

for Ecclesiastes illustrations – we discuss the infinity of the universe – both in its greatness & its minuteness – how the atom with its whirling electron may be peopled as our earth with beings having their revolutions, art movements, wars etc, or that the great Betelgeuse may be only an atom to some huge being who studies its possibilities as we do our atom –Outside was a clump of timothy that Lankes had spared the scythe on account of the way it swayed in the breeze –; Oh that it were February and I was walking along the black hills of the Ohio river at night watching the great scudding clouds all blotting out the stars. ; ; ; ; July 15, 1923 –; P.M. by trolley to end of Seneca St. Missing the Gardenville, I decide to walk, altho (sic) it was commencing to rain. It was a delicious calm straight falling summer rain – I walked along the road strangely torn by conflicting emotions – thoughts of bitterness and despair and strange sensations of gladness. Sorrow be-