MEHER MOUNT

9902 Sulphur Mountain Road
Ojai, CA 93023-9375

Phone: 805-640-0000
Email: info@mehermount.org

HOURS

Wednesday-Sunday: Noon to 5:00 p.m.
Monday & Tuesday: Closed

MANAGER/CARETAKERS

Buzz & Ginger Glasky

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sam Ervin, Preident
Ron Holsey, Vice President
Ursula Reinhart, Treasurer
Jim Whitson, Director
Richard Mannis, Director

OFFICERS

Margaret Magnus, Secretary

9902 Sulphur Mountain Rd
Ojai, CA, 93023
United States

(805) 640-0000

"Sometimes that is the only solace for loss."

Photo Friday Blog

"Sometimes that is the only solace for loss."

Meher Mount

Your Friday photo...

Visitor Stephanie Ervin shared a memory and the perspectives gained from a photo she took at Meher Mount many years ago…

“I took this photo of a tree trunk on a misty day at Meher Mount in April 2013. A few months later I came back to find it was gone.”

Loving something, appreciating it, enjoying it while it is present means that when it is no longer close to us, we have the comfort of knowing we did what we could with the time we had together. Sometimes that is the only solace for loss.
— Stephanie Ervin, Visitor

“There are times when the lessons I’ve learned at Meher Mount feel like a microcosm of the larger world. So much lives, thrives, is pared back, and then lost.

It is taken away by people, by time, by natural events, but all ultimately by God. 

This bare trunk was an ode to the tree that existed before.  

This particular photo captures a feeling that nothing is permanent. But for me, that is a reason to love it all the more: because it is impermanent. 

We never know how long we’ll have anything, how long we’ll be next to someone, how many days we will have in any one space.

Loving something, appreciating it, enjoying it while it is present means that when it is no longer close to us, we have the comfort of knowing we did what we could with the time we had together. Sometimes that is the only solace for loss.”

~Stephanie Ervin, Visitor