A flowering tree grows hidden in the canyon below our house. If no one sees it bloom, is it beautiful? Without a beholder, can there be beauty?
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Journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall reports from the scene – on religion and spirituality, books, writing . . . and life with a husband, a house, a nonagenarian mother, and two twenty-something kids.
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