The Nice Thing About Strangers
Creative Non-Fiction Short Stories. :) Travel, Oldsters, Love, and Compassion.
For Flyover Country
Oh, America, how I began to love your country! What miles of silences God has made in you for contemplation! If only people realized what all your mountains and forests are really for!
-Thomas Merton. The Seven Storey Mountain.
Nebraska at dusk
The Nice Thing About Strangers 
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Gorgeous. Both poem and picture. Thank you, Paige. Happy New Year.
I have long loved the work of Merton.