Along the side of a lightly traveled road, where there are
only three houses over the stretch of about a mile, a sign hangs near a field.
It once indicated something, but it is a message no longer discernible. Perhaps
the message is no longer relevant, such as identifying a farm stand that no longer
exists. Nevertheless, it is a lost communication between humans never to be
recovered. The wooden sign, with plants trying to take it over, stands as a
reminder that someone, at some point, thought it was important to communicate
something to others. Perhaps not as consequential as a first century ruin of a
long forgotten deity, or a burial marker for people whose beliefs we cannot
fathom. But an attempt by someone to be heard or seen, to convey something that
was important, but is no longer understood.
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