Astonishing. Getting older and older I still stand here at this window, watching-as if never having watched anything like it before-the wrens, juncos, and purple finches picking the seeds strewn on the pile of frozen snow. Through my breath condensing into fog on the cold window pane, I still see bare branches chasing their shadows in the icy wind, black threads of water crinkling though fissures in the frozen river. I am aware that what I am seeing is no more, no less than the great Mystery, that of being here at all, that of seeing it-as from the other side of a mirror-snow, birds, my breath still condensing, that breath that started so long ago as my first cry.
Frederick Franck from "Behind the Mask, " The Stranger, Summer 1995
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Astonishing...Great Mystery...
Astonishing. Getting older and older I still stand here at this window, watching-as if never having watched anything like it before-the wrens, juncos, and purple finches picking the seeds strewn on the pile of frozen snow. Through my breath condensing into fog on the cold window pane, I still see bare branches chasing their shadows in the icy wind, black threads of water crinkling though fissures in the frozen river. I am aware that what I am seeing is no more, no less than the great Mystery, that of being here at all, that of seeing it-as from the other side of a mirror-snow, birds, my breath still condensing, that breath that started so long ago as my first cry.
Frederick Franck from "Behind the Mask, " The Stranger, Summer 1995
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