Deep in the woods I meet an introvert, a shy icon: an earthly symbol of a heavenly reality. In the dark something mysterious and necessary is happening in the cells of this green plant. Stored energy is being released which will be used to convert carbon dioxide molecules into nutrients vital to life. This is…
I sit on the footbridge over the brook feeding into Piglet Pond. The water percolates under me, swirls around my boots, and gurgles on its way to the pond, there joining, mixing, uniting into something other than “brook” before some indistinguishable part breaks into the overflow and tumbles madly down the bank, throws itself over…
