Tag: lit
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November 1, 2018
“The world was beautiful. It surprised me, how beautiful it kept on insisting on being.” –from Louisiana’s Way Home I was on an early-morning walk; and the sun had risen behind me, illuminating the trees in the west. Suddenly all the things of the world seemed lit from within. There was so much light! Like…
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October 14, 2014
I’ve got a few trees that I visit on a regular basis: an old cottonwood down by the creek, a splendid oak that looks out over a busy road, a small maple that does spectacular tricks in the autumn. I go to see these trees and I lean up against them, and look into their…
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May 6, 2014
Last week, it rained all day long and all night, too. On Friday, the sun came out and I went to a dinner at the University of Minnesota. We were up high, in a room that looked out over the whole of Minneapolis. The sun lit up the buildings and turned them into the Emerald…
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January 17, 2012
I spent the weekend in a little hermitage with a woodstove. It was very cold; and at one point, I texted a friend and said: I am having a very hard time working this woodstove. And she, bless her, texted back these words: “You put the big log in the back, with the smaller sticks…
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December 1, 2011
A friend sent me this picture from the Milwaukee Public Museum: a humpback whale skeleton strung with lights. It’s like looking up at the night sky in some dark wood. If you squint, the bones become something winged, preparing to take flight. I like to think that inside we are all lit that way. And…