Tag: glowing
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January 9, 2020
I was standing in a coffee shop in New Orleans and looked over to see a plastic water pitcher suddenly turned into a pillar of light, glowing as if it had some message to impart. Which, I suppose, it did: miracles everywhere, beauty everywhere. And this: you, too, can become a container of light. Reactions:…
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September 18, 2012
The other day Henry and I were out walking when I saw a small thing glowing on the sidewalk ahead of me. At first I thought it was a piece of jewelry and then as I got closer, I decided it was some fabulous variety of beetle. What it turned out to be was a…
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November 1, 2011
A few mornings ago, I got up early and the world was dark and magical and I looked out the upstairs window and saw the neighbor’s basketball backboard glowing white in the darkness and I thought: would you look at that moon? It’s so low to the ground. I’ve been laughing about this for a…
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June 28, 2011
I was in New Orleans over the weekend, and on Sunday I walked into a coffee shop on Magazine Street and saw a water pitcher lit up by late afternoon sun. I wish I could paint, but what I have are words: luminous, incandescent, glowing, afire. I kept turning around to look at that column…