Old Faithful Postscript

If life is a tapestry then coming to Yellowstone has been the completion of one of the long strands that have run through my life. When I was a very young boy I was given a Children's Encyclopedia, which I would read with endless fascination. A section of that book described and explained some of the natural wonders of the world, one page of which was about Old Faithful Geyser. Many of those natural wonders I have seen, however Old Faithful Geyser has stuck particularly in my mind and, probably like most young people, it started a yearning in me, to want to see and understand our world, it was probably this that was the driving influence which resulted in my becoming a teacher. Well today I saw for real the page in my encyclopedia that so shaped my life. At this point I can only thank God that I have been able to see that fulfillment, not just because I am here, but also for the road that led me here. As I said at the beginning, a brightly coloured thread that started when I was a young boy, which has been woven in and out of the pattern and is still in the tapestry today.

Old Faithful Geyser