life
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Time goes this way and that and always with a springy step. Forward is one way now and another the next, thoughts unfurling, turning backward without warning. Waves break and rise and break again until at last all voices are silent in the chilly death of one last winter, the sand washed away to reveal…
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It stands there so tall and so quietly waiting, the lighthouse in all of its glory. But dark does it stay, its sad fate contemplating. Nobody remembers its story. Once bright shone the light pointing out at the sea. A beacon to guide weary sailors, lone captains or castaways drifting lonely, the world-weary, spent navigators.…
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Silent tears rolled down the boy’s face. His father laid one hand on the boy’s shoulder, gentle but firm, the other pointing into the distance. “Where do I go?” the boy asked softly. “Where we all must go. The journey is long and dangerous. But you are ready.” “Why must I go alone?” “We are…
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Those heady blossoms, I can see them now! Once, and only one more time, I lie down trusting as one who knows the summer’s day is in my heart again. How surely can one know how and when and where and why? Is it not the case that even angels fear to tread where hope…