Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The Good

Who can doubt the given, the first, the only good? Who can doubt that the stand of bushes, hidden, though they do not need to, though no one is looking, are pushing out their blossoms and fruits, thrilled in mid air, cheered in the sun, simply happy to be doing the good given them to do? Under the leaves, deep in the choking weeds, the berries come. No one can see them. No one can pick them. Yet they come, every year sweetening the universe.

7 comments:

  1. You are a master of words. The giver, the given, and the gift are the trinitarian economy and logic of all things good.

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  2. Good to hear from you Jason! We all miss you and the family.

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  3. Boring. Where are your citations?

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  4. Alan,
    The piece is actually a direct apparition from st. thomas to jason. St. Thomas is now pissed that you called his inspiration boring.

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  5. Good one, Alan. For my next post, why don't you get ready to call it "gay." Then, later, in a few months, you can use "stupid." I hear this is how they do in PhD programs. Read books and then check one of three boxes: "boring," "gay," or "stupid."

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  6. Maybe you don't eat berries aside from the kind that come in colorful breakfast cereals. If I make my next post about Pepsi, Alan, will you find it more interesting? Maybe Pepsi and chicken wings? I don't know. I'll do whatever it takes to entertain.

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  7. nice, an upcoming trilogy: gay, boring, & stupid.
    Seriously though, go easy on Alan. If he speaks over 250 words without a citation, he has to take medication. The only time he ever told me he loved me he was citing Pieper.

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