POSTCARD N.215 - USA

 Postcard sent on the 10th March; received on the19th March 2026

Postcard image: Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area - Calico Tanks

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Michal sent me a a beautiful postcard from the USA. Děkuji mnohokrát, Michal.

The planet was here before us and, hopefully, will be here after us. We're not owners; just users, fruitioners, but also guardians, keepers. This self-evident and yet strangely not so obvious truth is probably the most important thought that nature in all its grandiosity should impart on the visitor, the passer by, the local inhabitant.

"All things must pass," George Harrison aptly concluded in his most gracious and harmonious way, but some things last way longer than others and inanimate ones, like rocks and stones seem to have an inate ticket to eternity.

Images like the one of the card Michal sent me, always humble me. 

I know I will not be able in my limited life to actually enjoy the majority of the myriad of outstanding natural places that Earth has on offer, but, lucky as I am, compared to a lot of other humans, I have been to a few places which would look just as fine on a postcard.   

I have never been to the United States of America, though. Still, I have visited many of its natural wonders since my childhood days, in the always superior photos on the pages of the National Geographics that my father and later my own self subscribed to, long before the internet, e-mail, 

Or Trump, for that matter....

All things must pass...

Michal used a Forever stamp of the 2024 Flag issue which comprised 4 different designs. The set was issued on 14JUN2024.

Mechanical Postmark from Las Vegas, Nevada, this famous city being but a half an hour drive from the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, where the photo of the postcard was taken.