Tuesday, 30 June
8:46am, 30 Jun 2009
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“ I used to live within walking distance of a lake in a fairly large city. The lake is edged with schools, churches, parks, and a walking path. At the lake, I saw geese and ducks, and I met birds that were new to me, like banded coots. Occasionally I would see a pelican or a heron, just hanging out in the lake in my neighborhood. The lake was like a meeting place, a natural town square for human and non-human neighbors. Families, couples, elders, runners, weary people seeking rest, teenagers seeking new horizons, all came to the edge of the lake to sit or to walk the three-mile path around it. I would walk by the lake when I had something to think through, or when I was moved to have a heart-to-heart talk with a partner or friend. The lake seemed to me to be a center of community and beauty. What went on underneath the surface of the lake was a mystery to me. The water was reflective and unknowable, but it provided a center around which hearts revolved.

— “In Motion,” a sermon just posted on my other Tumblr (via apatosaurus)
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Anand Thakker

I'm a high school teacher, who used to be a software developer. This is one of the places I come to think.
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