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MAKING READY
The birds are returned. I hear them sonorous, settled in the tops of trees. From a cedar, finches burst, hidden and flashing like fish in cover then bursting in sudden sound of fan and burst like minnow school in airborn sea. They flee, circle short, and settle back feeding on the small blue berries; fanning, […]
WINTER FLIGHTS
He listened to the sounds with small and natural awe whenever he stepped from truck: geese in flight, all around, appearing and dissolving again into low cloud fog and mist of sky. It’d been years since they had been as this: hard freeze of the north in press and […]
JANUARY 25: THE WAY—CONVERSION OF SAINT PAUL
Yesterday in the Catholic Church we celebrated the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul when, on the road to Damascus, he encountered Jesus Christ in voice and vision of light, was blinded, brought again to see by the laying on of hands and faith; and forever after became an instrument of Christ. […]