"And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, 'Be still' and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things."
Maurice Sendak 1928-2012
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"You could more easily catch a hurricane in a shrimp net than you could understand the wild, relentless, passionate, uncompromising, pursuing love of God made present in the manger." Brennan Manning Time to review the different species of evergreens. I can't believe I am the age I am and don't always even know my own Christmas Tree by its needles and smell. I need a yearly refresher. This is Tom Thomson's famous painting of a Jack Pine-- a symbol in my homeland. I know that one.
"Jack pines...are not lumber trees (and they) won't win many beauty contests either. But to me this valiant old tree, solitary on its own rocky point, is a beautiful as a living thing can be...In the calligraphy of its shape against the sky is written strength of character and perseverance, survival of wind, drought, cold, heat, disease...In its silence it speaks of...wholeness...an integrity that comes of being what you are." Douglas Wood Henry Ossawa Tanner's "The Annunciation" 1898
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