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Show Renascence at the University 79 declared his affection for her and "he was the first for me to really love." She was keeping in touch with Harold, but there was respect, not love. She ended her entry for March 1, 1925 with this prayer: "Whatever else I may love, youth, or what-not, whatever else I lose, may I always have in my heart a love that will make me always higher and finer. "28 On May 17, 1925, she wrote: I sit quite still And around me The waters, like the throb of many lives, Pulse and beat. It is as if Life itself Were pressing very close to me. Pulsing and throbbing I can sense only the pulse and the throb, N ever the meaning. Back at the ranch in the summer of 1925, she enjoyed com panionship and the many sounds and sights of that splendid environment. She was "full of the spirit," as the saying goes, as she left in September to go back to work, this time to be a teacher at LDS University, to be distinguished from LDS High School, which she had attended. Following is the entry in her diary on the day in September when she left the ranch to return to Salt Lake City: I stole a minute to run down to the river where all the dead pines are. This summer the last one of the group has been standing at the water's brink and today I saw that it is being rapidly undermined by the stream. I know that by next spring it will lie prone and dead. Now it is at an angle of about 60 degrees. I could reach high and touch one of the lower branches as the whole tree leaned across the stream, strong and straight and still live to the tip of each needle. It was terrible to see death so certain, so ultimate. It depressed me greatly. I reached back my arms to the young |
