Sunday, September 23, 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012
The Last Unicorn
So I posted this on facebook...but I felt like it really needed to go on the blog too. This is an actual movie that I watch a little bit of and it made me think of all of you.
Back Again
May this also be a wish for all of you as you begin the new school year:
And Back Again
It is almost time to go
back again. Wind’s shhh sound through pines is visible on a contoured field.
Light bends around blue mountains, their familiar shapes appearing now in
dreams, now in a chance pebble. This has become the textured boarder of our
life.
At the center of Dante’s
paradise there’s an ordered rose, complex, structured, beautiful, but we find
God in small, jumbled moments—in soccer and sweat and wordless songs. We
venture out like forest creatures into a new day or night without answers, but
with stories. We speak to each other and God simply with small words—sincerely.
We feel the dust of our
mortality in Rome, in farming, in ancient tombs, our faces painted, in chapels,
domes, street corners, shop window glass. We find our shapes proportional in
space—a landscape, cathedral; we are small and grand.
Were we overawed by
trumpets and fire and gold—on nights of contagious laughter, on nights of
twisting pain? We grew together in cracked places.
It is almost time to go
back again. Do not fear familiarity or strangeness, a place too small to
contain you. God is in the miniscule and vast. We carry a world within which
can never be lost. In a world of noise and traffic and half-price deals or
plate glass and death and fear, we hold together. We sit silent. We listen, and
once or twice or three or four or over and over, little by little, piano,
piano, we do right to one another.
{you are all simultaneously in my thoughts and affections}
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