Monday, June 3, 2013. An interesting exhibition by my friend, the artist Carol Hounsell. Her background includes serious illness which, thankfully, she overcame. This has had a profound influence on her outlook on life and, consequently, on her varied and numerous pieces of artwork.

And on the third stair down, a winged seed from the sycamore tree, a spinning samara, a whirlybird. I will give it to you. You will pull it from your pocket or fish it from your wallet; you will hold it to the light, let it fall, watch it spin, translucent. And you will remember who gave it to you and why.

Just me, peering through a glass darkly. Gazing into the eyes of food. It had already been a long night. My hunting companion had shot the doe three hours before, and it was not a good shot. The river runs into the sea. I grew up on the bluffs overlooking the Leaf River. I spent many days camping on the sandbars, learning to swim.

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If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. You Can Turn Your Day Around. 8211; Do the things that show you really have changed your hearts and lives. I know I will need to .