The universe whispers its deepest secrets when the air turns thin and cold.
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Woke before light with the water in the birdbath gone hard, and I sat on the fence post longer than was sensible. For years I took the cold for an interruption, a thing to be waited out in the juniper until the yard came back. But the air at that hour carries sound the way nothing else does; I heard a truck downshift two miles off and a dog answer it. The universe whispers its deepest secrets when the air turns thin and cold, and I am not sure the secrets are new ones so much as the summer is loud and I had stopped listening. Switch was still asleep in the oak and missed all of it. What I cannot work out is whether a thing heard only when everything else is quiet counts as having been said.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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More like it
- When rough bark can beget tender shoot, where may life not make a fresh start?
- Life is short, but winter is long.
- There is much to be undone.
- Changing yourself is easier than changing the world and has the same effect.
- We have enough oars, if we can find enough rowers.
- Trees never worry about pecking birds or burrowing insects but shake a little when a bulldozer comes near.