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Wilderness
This is mid-winter break, and many of us are on the move. Some have headed somewhere warmer, some somewhere colder, some are just home with the kids trying to make it to Friday. \
Gideon L. K. Pollach
The Very Rev. Gideon L. K. Pollach is the Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, where he has been asking what the pond has to teach since before he knew he was asking.
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Remember You Are Dust
We've entered the stage of winter that nobody writes poems about: too warm for beauty, too cold for growth. Just a mess.
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Superb Owl Sunday
This past Sunday, while most of America watched the big game, the owls of Cold Spring Harbor were doing what they've done every winter evening for longer than any of us have lived here. They were hunting in the dark. Great horned owls are nesting right now — in
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Embrace the Freeze
The pond isn't resisting or apologizing for this transformation. It's simply being what this temperature and this snowfall have made it: a place transformed by conditions it didn't choose but isn't fighting either.
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The Snowstorm’s Gift
The snow teaches us the deepest realities don't depend on our activity.
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Beneath the Ice
If you've walked past St. John's Pond this week, you've seen the ice continuing to form, the surface stilling into winter quiet. The swans remain, stark white against grey water, but the visible abundance of autumn has given way to something that looks like