Photo of a silvery Puffer's Pond taken by Joshua Wolfsun one year ago to the day, 12/31/2019
Astonishing. Getting older and older, I still stand here at this window, watching as if never having watched anything like it before – the wrens, juncos, and purple finches picking the seeds strewn on the pile of frozen snow. Through my breath condensing into fog on cold window pane, I still see bare branches chasing their shadows in the icy wind, black threads of water crinkling through fissures in the frozen river. I am aware that what I am seeing is no more, no less than the great Mystery, that of being here at all, that of seeing it - as if from the other side of a mirror - snow, birds, my breath still condensing, that breath that started so long ago as my first cry.
~ Frederick Franck (1909-2006), painter, sculptor, artist
Happy New Year, cloud spotters - here's to continuing to look up in 2021, come what may!
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