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Before daybreak, prior to first light, there is a moment of “awe and inexpressible innocence,” writes Thomas Merton. One hears the movement of birds in trees and then their first chirps. Merton calls that instant “point vierge,” the virginal moment of the new day. It is then, he writes, that “paradise is all around us,” but “the most wonderful moment of the day” escapes our notice.*
— Diary, autumn 2009
* “Conjectures of an Guilty Bystander” by Thomas Merton; Doubleday, New York (1966).
From the diary of beach walker George Thatcher, a retired banker, of Gulfport. E-mail: fishcrow@aol.com. A fourth volume of Thatcher’s work, “A Decade of Beach Walks,” is available in bookstores and gift shops or by calling 800-343-1583.
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