!G for gaudete
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agk's diary 
17 December 2021 @ 15:33
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written on Pinebook Pro
at kitchen table with mug of tea and TrueAnon 
podcast's coverage of Ghislaine Maxwell trial
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> Tidings of comfort and joy!

The third week of Advent is when joy joins hope and
love, three lights illuminating winter.

Yesterday I sat on the weathered carport concrete 
with a mug of hot coffee and Fall 2021 Telos, 
reading a paper on the concept of metaphor in Hannah 
Arendt's unfinished last book The Life of the Mind. 
My baby sat in dry grass facing away.

I looked at her back. She held in her right hand a  
leaf she'd snatched as it swirled in the wind. She 
can't yet crawl, but saw leaves in vast armies *fly*. 
She wondered at their freedom. They danced dozens of 
meters here and there at wind's fancy. What a sight!

Watching her witness and feel new patterns in the 
outdoor world, I felt sun and breeze warm and cool 
my skin. Indoors temperature is not so dynamic. I 
smelled leaf mold, heard wind whoosh and leaves 
skitter.  A pickup truck passed, doppler-shifted 
engine, tire-hiss, shockingly linear motion through 
leaf-chaos. Nothing like that indoors.

Stunning light carved sharp shadows, then muted.
Shadows vanished. She wondered. I rejoiced with her.

> God has become man
> With nature marvelling
> The world has been renewed
> By the reigning Christ

> Gaudete, gaudete Christus est natus
> Ex Maria virgine, gaudete!