Friday, October 30, 2009

Storm and Calm

Wind thrashes, waves crash, and rain hurries down the windows in rivers that branch into endless tributaries. It is dark outside, and the chimney howls with a ghostly, mournful wail that refuses to be stifled.

Inside two candles burn - slowly, calmly, their flames hardly flickering. Piano music beckons me to follow a pied piper to some inner place of calm where the outside storm seems to cease.

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