Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Strawberry Moon<\/p>\n
My cards were good.\u00a0 I won some hands.\u00a0 But.\u00a0 Boy, did I screw up when I took a chance on a hand where winning would have offered double points, but losing, as I did, with below a minimum, quadrupled the penalty.\u00a0 Ouch!\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n
The night was glorious.\u00a0 A warm summer night, a clear sky, the kind of night when everyone is a child, just waiting for the other kids to come out, to play one last game, perhaps wave a sprinkler around or sit down and talk.<\/p>\n
A night much like the one I experienced in New Harmony, Indiana when I walked down a lane past the only open air Episcopalian church in the country, designed by Phillip Johnson.\u00a0 This astonishing church is on one side of a lane that runs back into a woods.\u00a0 Just across the lane, behind a wonderful small restaurant, The Red Geranium, is a grove of conifers planted on small drumlins.\u00a0 Inside a modest maze created by these trees lies, improbably, the grave of one of the 20th centuries finest theologians, Paul Tillich.<\/p>\n
It was just after dusk, night had come softly, but definitely.\u00a0 The lane only ran for no more than half-mile on past the church and Tillich’s grave.\u00a0 As I wandered back, moving away from the main street and toward the woods that lay at the end of the lane, I began to notice the fireflies.<\/p>\n
Right where the lane met the woods, fireflies congregated, blinking off and on, creating an arc of bioluminescence.\u00a0 Then others began to blink, further back in the woods.\u00a0 There were thousands of them and as the ones further in began to blink they created the effect of a tunnel of light, blinking on and off.<\/p>\n
(this pic is similar, not the night I describe)<\/p>\n
Walking toward this between two holy places, the possibility that this was an opening to faerie seemed very plausible, even likely.<\/p>\n
I stood there for over a half an hour, neither entering the woods, nor leaving the lane, captured as I was by the sense of a veil between the worlds opened where I was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Strawberry Moon My cards were good.\u00a0 I won some hands.\u00a0 But.\u00a0 Boy, did I screw up when I took a chance on a hand where winning would have offered double points, but losing, as I did, with below a minimum, quadrupled the penalty.\u00a0 Ouch!\u00a0 Sigh. The night was glorious.\u00a0 A warm summer night, … Continue reading An Entrance to Faery<\/span>