- Youth: J Alfred Prufrock's "voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room." Youth is being in that room conversing with old friends and strangers, laughing at profanities, boasting about experiences, engaging in the "have you read it/seen it/lived it?" competition with your peers. You are alive in the moment and careless of what may come after.
- Sisterhood: George McDonald's vision of the world within the rainbow in The Golden Key.
- The place where I met God: I usually go back to the meadow between the two rivers in Montana with all the little white flowers. When I was there, I wanted to stamp it on my memory and somehow I did. I can also go back to the moment when I closed the book Till We Have Faces after reading it for the first time at age 14. I also remember looking back into the church after the Pascha service at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Washington, DC. The church was empty and full of light. The Royal Doors were flung open. I realized that I was looking into the empty tomb after Christ's resurrection.
- The playground: The fear of being the last one picked for the team.
apr 5 2015 ∞
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