Abstract
1 1 5 R A C T O F N A T U R E E D M U N D K E E L E Y At my wife’s grave I found the headstone soiled by droppings from the single branch stretched above it, the grave site chosen for that branch to honor what lay below it. I asked the supervisor why the headstone couldn’t be cleaned more or less regularly under my contract for perpetual care of this site I’d bargained for. Those droppings, he said, were a simple Act of Nature not covered by the contract, besides, he said, next time if you’re lucky enough you might find a blossom fallen on the headstone from that very branch. I went home unhappy. But as I thought about it, the urn in that grave carries acts of nature from the beginning and the end as will the other beside it 1 1 6 Y no time at all in the future waiting for its stain or blossom as the great gods of nature in their capricious wisdom choose to mark that grave. ...
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