"For us, our house is not insentient matter—it has a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals, and solicitudes, and deep sympathies; it is of us, and we are in its confidence, and live in its grace and in the peace of its benediction. We never come home from an absence that its face does not light up and speak out its eloquent welcome—and we can not enter it unmoved."
—Mark Twain, 1896
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Monday, October 20, 2008

Into the Mystic

At the end of Sparrow Park Road..........there is a forest of Pines and Fern gardens that protect a river as it meanders languidly into the ocean.

To say that I live surrounded by the mystic would be an understatement.

Every morning, as I look out any window in my house, I fill my vision with the majesty of Pine trees that are shrouded in mist. They gild the mountains that gently slope downward into my neighborhood.

On those same mountains lives a myriad of God’s creatures. They hide in the brush of wild Berries and Ferns that blanket the roots of the towering tree trunks where the green moss grows. And, every now and then as a few of them find courage, Deer stroll down into the yards abundant with domesticated delicacies: delicacies that suit their palate. On those rare occasions, we humans silence ourselves and marvel at the wonder.

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