En Pointe

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And then she looks at me, gathers her wings, turns, leaps . . . and stands in place, a raptorish stork en pointe on one curving talon, not quite an arabesque but more graceful than I will ever be all the same.

And then she looks at me as if to say, Did you get it?

Do you get it?

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The Light of a New Sun

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And once in a while, as on this day, we are granted the gift of a new life, too, one lived in the light of a new sun.



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In the Light

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They emerge from the mountains, from the vales and valleys between; they emerge from the ruins, from ancient kivas and sacred spaces, out of their old world into this one to walk again, if only for a moment, in the light.

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On Such a Night As This

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On such a night as this, the light lives in heaven, and summons hell.




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Sun Dog

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No, the light that takes the form of the Sun Dog is wholly a creature of Spirit: a holy trinity of indigenous origin, man’s best friend in the form of that which sustains the body even as its beauty and wonder sustain the spirit.

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The Story

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The light tells the story of the world and its dreams.



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A Slide of the Spirits

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The light is a slide of the spirits to a scorched and waiting earth.




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The Love of the Spirits

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It is the alchemist’s kiss, more potent than in any fairy tale, proof of the love of the spirits, transforming an earthy world into gold.



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The Place Where the Thunderbird Flies

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The light is the threshold, the interstices, the place where the Thunderbird flies. 




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More Than a Gift

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As the world bids farewell to summer in one moment and greets autumn in the next, the light is more than a gift: The light is love.





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Bonfire

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The light is summer's bonfire.



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Masque/Mask

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But in its intrusiveness, its invasiveness, its colonizing of a world too gentle for its glare, the light shows us the beauty of the veil, finds for us the bounds of its existence . . . the masque of a mask that protects our sight.



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The Fire Is the Sky

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It is not fire in the sky, no, not so much. The fire is the sky.




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Transfiguration

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The light is transfiguration: When we cast off gravity’s bonds, we become infinity.

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The Light Is

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Like the shadow, the light is.



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The True Spirit

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The true spirit becomes the light.

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Geometry

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The light is geometry aglow with the dust of first things.



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Only the Light

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But we who live among the spirits know.

It is only the light.



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Elemental

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Across the spaces between worlds, life becomes elemental.

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The Real Pearl

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The light is the real pearl beyond price, the one truly untouchable, unknowable, the perfect virgin always just out of reach, yet available for worship.



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