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strange and wild

            In the dark, a child might ask, What is the world?
just to hear his sister
promise, An unfinished wing of heaven,
just to hear his brother say,
A house inside a house,
but most of all to hear his mother answer,
One more song, then you go to sleep.

How could anyone in that bed guess
the question finds its beginning
in the answer long growing
inside the one who asked, that restless boy,
the night's darling?

Later, a man lying awake,
he might ask it again,
just to hear the silence
charge him, This night
arching over your sleepless wondering,

this night, the near ground
every reaching-out-to overreaches,

just to remind himself
out of what little earth and duration,
out of what immense good-bye,

each must make a safe place of his heart,
before so strange and wild a guest
as God approaches.
---Li Young-Lee
   

Taken on: December 25, 2009

Tags:

mystery

firelight

enigmatic

beauty

liminality

winter

December

embers

spirit

fireplace

home

the Cove

contemplative

digital play

favorite

negative

deep

vivid

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Sets appears in: • images and words together • at the Cove more » • 2009 • favorites • connecting • cool tones • gratitude • the wheel of the year • gift and card choices and some personal faves • for shows? • via negativa • grace • mystical • why not become all fire? • hearth and fireside • fire art • colorplay • holiday card choices • joy • firelight and flame • another world • the spirit of the season • magical and otherworldly • transformation • painterly • nourishment for the soul • digital experimentation • vivid, deep, vibrant colors and hues • mystery and enigma • purples and lavenders • abstracts (more or less) • moody « less

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Camera: Canon PowerShot SD780 IS, f/4.5, 1 sec, 10.6mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon PowerShot SD780 IS
Aperture:	f/4.5
Exposure Time:	1
Focal Length:	10.6mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery 6.0.6000.16386
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