Posted in Essays on Dec 20th, 2009
Courting the Drop: A World with True and Grand Harmony, 19 March 2002 On this Tuesday, the day of the second in a series of three medical treatments undertaken in hopes of reducing the chronic back and neck pain I share life with, I awake wanting to go to the little restaurant near my house [...]
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Posted in Essays on Dec 20th, 2009
Autumn’s Winter Fall, 19 November 2000 Here it is the Sunday before Thanksgiving and we have nearly three inches of snow on the ground, with the white stuff still heavily falling. It’s been at least thirty years since this part of the Old North State has had such early snow, and I’ve been able to [...]
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Posted in Essays on Nov 26th, 2009
I Am The One Called “My heart in hiding stirred for a bird – the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!” Gerard Manley Hopkins penned his exultative prayer in a poem, “The Windhover, To Christ Our Lord.” His words come to mind because my own heart has been stirred by “daylight’s dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon,” [...]
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