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          “Life needs a little Magic, don’t you think?  Maybe It isn’t real, all imagined; or maybe there’s something to It.  Maybe we manifest It, or maybe we sense and allow It to show and live through us.  Whatever It is, even if It’s nothing, I’d rather live in belief in Its possibility than a […]

                They climbed a switchback trail ascending through stands of aspen and lodgepole pines until line where trees stunted then gave way to snow and lichen spread over rock scree and solid granite slopes.                  They set camp beside an alpine lake within a cradle of surrounding peaks that shone grey in day and changed […]

                “Ada wondered that herons could tolerate each other close enough to breed.  She had seen a scant number in her life, and those so lonesome as to make the heart sting on their behalf.  Everywhere they were seemed far from home.”—Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain                 The heron held in the shadows, her long legs […]

                He watched as she readied her children for church, the attention and care she put into their dress, hair, presentability; licking her fingers and smoothing wildness in son’s hair by combing it with touch back to cultivated order.                 Her studied her, in her own dismissing of self in service to her children, another […]

“…the whole framework of the universe does homage and service to him who thus purifies and sanctifies his senses.”—Saint Bonaventure, The Life of St. Francis of Assisi                 They read the quote beneath a sky of stars, the Milky Way as backdrop shadow-light behind nearer stars arranged into near dreams and constellations shaped with accompanied […]

                The sky shone blue but in the fire of summer sun, too long since rain, burned hot and harsh without wind.  Ryan was already sweating, and staring on the world, all he could see were sign of settling drought as the means to a livelihood went dormant or outright died.                  It was all […]