Show r iip it surrounds permeates and indudes us says the author LOSE YOUR EYES AND PICTURE “nature” What do you see? A film starts running across my mind’s eye accompanied by the sound of heartbeats and birdsong It contains my whole experience of Earth includ- - le floated on or swum under the ing all the oceans skies I’ve flown through the lands I’ve walked upon the humans and other animals I’ve known lots of nature I’ve never witnessed firsthand hit glimpsed in documentaries orread about and the Earth seen from space Naturally that film would take lifetimes to explore tiflpiacn i ni'i In i&raiu&tfiii because nature means die fiill sum of creation from the Big Bang to the whole shebang It includes: spring moving north at about 1 3 miles a day afternoon tea and cookies snow forts pepper-pstew pink sand and confetti-colore- d cottages moths with fake eyes oh their hind wings emotions both savage and blessed tidal waves pogo-boppisparrows blushing octopuses scientists bloodhounding die truth memory’s wobbling aspic the harvest moon rising like slow thunder fat rainbows beneath spongy clouds tiny tassels of wony on a summer day the night sky’s distant leak of suns an aging father’s voice so husky it could pull a sled the courtship ot ng Can we have life thrqngh the death of another? Many struggjc to understand how death and then resurrection can give us everlasting life But we are assured that “With God all things are possible" (Matthau 1926) To leam more about the true significance of Easter Sunday Christ’s Resurrection conquered the power of death and opened for us the way to eternal life and the crowning truth of Christian Faith send for a free copy of “The Resurrection of the Body" Simply mail in the attached coupon or visit us at wwwlcofcorgcis nU09D name Mail to: Catholic information Service Knights of Columbus RQ BOX 1444 New Haven CT 06506-144- 4 ADDRESS cmr STATE Other booklets like this one aie available to you at no change far a complete list visit www1 THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS In lutvtci ro onb In aaavica to all Surrounded by trees and sky it is easy to feel a powerful sense of being molded by unseen forces older than our daily concerns vesces in and includes us At the end of our days it de-ranges and disassembles us like old toys banished to the basement There mice living beings we return to our nonliving elements but we stilland forever re--' main a part of nature Not everyone agrees with me Many people harbor an mentality in which nature is the enemy and the kingdom of animals doesn't really include us Then we can attribute to animals all the things about ourselves that we can’t stand True we build more elaborate habitats than other animals who to die best of my knowledge don't re-- 1 frothing maquire anything like electric cow-mi- lk chines beeswax on a flaming string or vaporized flower essence mixed with musk from the anal sac of civets to encourage breeding But I could be wrong Maybe the wren’s liquid melody is equally fantastic And I'm reluctant to hazard a guess about die necking and petting of alligators whose cheeks are studded with sensitive pleasure nodes Even at our most MQK IS APML SO MMIl ' ' J j j MMDC MAMZME 4- - |