Snow Day Reflection, by Tracy Cochran
Valerius de Saedeleer (1876-1946), Winter Landscape There are different kinds of realizations. They are not always lightening bolts but sometimes soft and slow, as if snow…
Intelligence and Service
Lee van Laer, Red-Tailed Hawk, Piermont, NY Like the rest of the Parabola readership, I’ve been watching the developments on the borders of Europe — the…
The Golden Ticket, by Tracy Cochran
Chainfoto24, Wat Maha That, Sukhothai (Wikimedia Commons) One day recently, a Buddhist monk stopped me on the street in Manhattan, offering me peace for the…
Determination, by Tracy Cochran
Lawren Harris (Can. 1885-1970), Beaver Swamp, Algoma, 1920, oil on canvas. “If we could surrender to Earth’s intelligence, we would rise up rooted, like trees.” ―Rainer…