Tag: lightning
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April 7, 2015
Last week, we got a tremendous storm here: purple skies and dark clouds and lightning. I sat out on the back deck and watched it roll in. It was dusk. The bats were out—flitting back and forth. There was a wren working on a nest up high in a pine tree. The clouds kept changing.…
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August 23, 2011
There is a wonderful essay by Anna Quindlen entitled “The Lightning Bugs are Back” in which she talks about childhood, parenthood, memories and fireflies (“those little flares in the darkness, a distillation of the kind of life we think we had, we wish we had, we want again.”). I thought about that essay as I…