Tag: clouds
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January 24, 2023
Ramona and I were taking a walk on a cloudy day last week. We passed the library doors just as a mother and child exited. The child (four or five years old) was carrying a stack of books. CHILD: So right now, we will go home and read. We will read and read and read.…
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November 7, 2017
It was late on a grey day, and as I walked I thought about the sermon title I had seen on a church marquee—The World Will Be Saved by Beauty. I looked up and there was the moon—barely risen, cloaked in a cloud. And then a flock of geese flew over, and the last rays…
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September 30, 2014
At the Children’s Museum of South Dakota, there is an exhibit that allows you to climb in the clouds. I visited South Dakota last week, and I got to make that climb. I crouched and clung and jumped and went higher and higher, from cloud to cloud. It was a truly wondrous thing. By my…
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June 24, 2014
I left alone early on Friday morning to drive north, to join friends at the cabin. First, it was foggy. After the fog, there were clouds. After the clouds, there was rain. And then, an unseen hand pulled the curtain back and this world appeared: green, blue, bright beyond all reckoning. When I got to…
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January 17, 2013
I am just back from a writer’s retreat. My last morning away, I climbed a hill and walked a labyrinth. It was snowing. There was a lake below me and woods were around me and the sun was trying to break through the clouds, but I kept my eyes on my feet. At first, I…