Meditations in an Emergency

Meditations in an Emergency

Lightning

Standing under 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit

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Rosecrans Baldwin
Sep 27, 2025
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“Lightning” (1909), Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis

For several hours, Wednesday evening: high winds and waggling trees. Grapevines outside my borrowed cottage got whacked. All the bluster yanked my socks off the laundry line and tossed them in the dirt.

As I wrote here last week, I’m currently attending an artist retreat in Eastern Europe. On Tuesday, …

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