DEVOTION
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Eternity Envelopes Us
One opposite to time’s moment is eternity-to-come: “then” replacing “now”; future’s fulness overcoming present’s poverty. Thoreau uses a stream to describe another opposition: a juxtaposition of what is constantly passing with what just as constantly remains. “Time is...
Before Traffic Arrives
I stand at an intersection waiting for the light to cycle so I can cross a major thoroughfare. To my left, oncoming traffic in the right lane heads directly for me, my safety resting entirely in the drivers’ compliance with the road’s gentle bend. I am flippantly...
Words That Cleanse
It is early November, and autumn’s leaves blanket the ground. Each year, our elm canopy releases individual leaves to arc, spiral, or tumble down erratic paths onto the sidewalk, patio, and driveway behind the house. But this year, in October, the leaves, the fence,...
A Mere Breath
The cough released in a cry introduces us to the world over whose persistence our days will waft and eddy. A decade and a half later, we exhale and our vocalizations crack. At an altar, a sigh says “I do.” Anxious, we hyperventilate; shocked, we gasp; frustrated, we...
The Greater Distraction
From anywhere but on it, a bicycle seems a near silent mode of transportation, exercise, and amusement. But anyone with a bike is familiar either with the largely metallic cacophony of scrapes, grinds, creaks, whines, and groans which accompany a ride, or the grease,...
The Light That Shines
I am accustomed to squint on eastward morning drives, but today the sun’s glare is diffused by a few stratus clouds. I can still track its otherwise invisible climb, though, as it illuminates the clouds’ crystals of ice in a blindingly garish display of refraction....