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Here Tonight
“Well you went left and I went right As the moon hung proud and bright You would have loved it here tonight” These lines are from Mumford & Son’s “Home,” a song Jim did not hear from here. The beagles … Continue reading
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Tagged camera, heart, home, hydrangea, Jim, light, Lot's wife, Mumford & Sons, photograph, sepia, Sodom
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Still the Only One
The heart lingers: it remains the lone flower on this particular planting that has sprouted into full color in its sea of green.
Whispers from the Wings
In a recent post I contemplated Frederick Buechner’s definition of compassion in Wishful Thinking. A cousin’s comment on that post has had me thinking about another essay in the same book, concerning what we take to be coincidental: “I believe that … Continue reading
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Tagged air show, birds, Blue Angels, cerulean, clouds, coincidence, Frederick Buechner, heart, indigo bunting, love, rainbow, sky, sunlight, Wishful Thinking
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Invincible Summer, Perpetual Spring
My sister-in-law today sent me a quote from Albert Camus: “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” She is at least the second among my sisters-in-law to suggest to me that … Continue reading
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Tagged Camus, heart, higher fidelity, in the moment, lion and the lamb, poetry, seasons, Sisyphus, spring, struggle, summer, winter
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