Grace

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding....If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.

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Matter

Matter condenses out of field like water droplets condense out of water vapor in a steamy bathroom.


KC Cole

Will there be wolves in the forest?

I hope we get home soon.

For her, church was an airy white room with tall windows looking out on God's good world, with God's good sunshine pouring in through those windows and falling across the pulpit where her father stood, straight and strong, parsing the broken heart of humankind and praising the loving heart of Christ. That was church.

Marilynne Robinson (Home)

1. a. A sudden or momentary gleam of light from the sun, a fire, etc.; a slight flash; a peep of light; a twinkling gleam, as of the stars

4. = ICE-BLINK: a shining whiteness about the horizon produced by reflection from distant masses of ice. Also, loosely, a large mass or field of ice, an iceberg.


b. fig. A ‘glimmer’ or ‘spark’ of anything good. c. A brief gleam of mental sunshine.

(Seoul at night)

In Incheon, South Korea. Fast transit, hip humans.

only connect

The heart-string, she though--what is the heart-string? Tears came into her eyes. She touched the stone, pressing it firmly into it hole. Kneeling, she kissed it. Then she hurried to the rock and kissed it. Then, after caressing the mysterious messages of its criss-cross cracks, not looking back, she ran quickly out of the dell and onto the open hillside.

Iris Murdoch

The Green Knight


Like spiders: putting things back together.