Discoveries

Letter 4497

I startled a family of deer in a forgotten hollow. It is a place I rarely go. They ran off as I approached.

I found a spider web at the back of the shed, covering long-disused garden tools.

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These discoveries — I make them only because I go places I used to go, and now do not.

Perhaps I can generate new discoveries.

Consider:

Can I surprise myself today?

Reading:

❖ “Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them.” — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

❖ “Nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.” — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu

❖ “Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.” — Genesis 28:16 (KJV)

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~B.R.