http:\/\/mdotnetpublic.state.mi.us\/drive\/<\/a>) and began by enlarging a normal airport route (the Lodge to 94) and looking at the orange barrel icons which offer pretty up to date word about traffic conditions. \u00a0I 94 closed between Greenfield & Michigan both ways. \u00a0So let\u2019s try I96 to the Southfield; another orange barrel tells me that The Southfield is closed both ways between Ford and I-94. \u00a0 But there doesn\u2019t seem to be any trouble on Telegraph. \u00a0MDOT\u2019s assistance worked. \u00a0To the airport on time, by a more indirect route. \u00a0 Almost all those roads were clear of flooding. \u00a0 \u00a0Not so a day earlier. \u00a0The longest drive home from campus Monday, that I heard about, was 5 hours between McNichols and Warren. \u00a0Lots of stories of battered cars and basements and campus elevators. \u00a0 A hammer of a storm.<\/p>\nBut when I pulled up my blinds this morning and saw sun dancing with the trees outside my window, the storm has passed, an elixir. \u00a0 Of course, beauty and weather-relief do not heal all wounds \u2014
\n\u2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 not all the storm damage is repaired;
\n\u2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 another young black man, Michael Brown, shot dead in the street by a police officer in Ferguson Missouri;
\n\u2014\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yazidi people driven from their homes in Northern Iraq by well-armed fanatics who exult in their genocide on Youtube.<\/p>\n
Sheer beauty can look inadequate for repairing violent storm damage. \u00a0But I doubt it. \u00a0Beauty does not deceive when we find more spring in our step and smiles in our eyes. \u00a0Its work is reminding us that deep down, under the exhausting burdens of our adult commitments, lives a wellspring of sacred grace.<\/p>\n
Blesses as we absorb storm damage and turn into today.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
john st sj<\/p>\n
Today\u2019s Post<\/b><\/p>\n
William Carlos Williams understood about life-weariness and beauty\u2019s restorative powers. \u00a0 Try reading it aloud once or twice.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The Manoeuvre<\/b><\/p>\n
I saw the two starlings
\ncoming in toward the wires
\nBut at the last,
\njust before alighting, they<\/p>\n
turned in the air together
\nand landed backwards!
\nthat’s what got me —
\nto face into the wind’s teeth.<\/p>\n
William Carlos Williams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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