Our roof seems to be home to an entire ecosystem. Besides the fact that we have enough grass up there to keep a goat, we get inklings of varied life-forms and mysterious goings-on that we can’t see — or see only when they spill over into our lower world. An early visitor was the five-foot-long [...]
Category Archive for 'Mystery'
The Woman with Three Feet
Posted in Contemplation, Mindfulness, Mystery on Apr 7th, 2005
Small mysteries abound. First, the escalator at Macy’s wasn’t working last week, so along with the other customers, I was walking down. Standing on the bottom step — as some sort of safety measure, I suppose — was a woman, an employee of the store. Between her feet was a shoe, so that she looked [...]
In the process of unpacking boxes after our move, I have been running into things I had forgotten I had. One is a rather blurry photograph of a sculpture by Enrico Manfrini in the Vatican Museum. I do remember the sculpture clearly, and I remember being so taken by it that I returned to the [...]