Memory of a Miracle

Miracles are wonderful things. What happened in New York City four years ago yesterday, when a US Airways plane crash-landed in the Hudson River and everyone survived, was a miracle.

According to Philosopher David Hume a miracle is “a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by

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A Touch Of Nature

On New Years Day…looking out from my home’s high set of five stories above a meadow and a small pond an immateur eagle was perched on a strong branch. The eagle was probably around two years old.

He or she had not yet attained the full white-feathered breast or head and a yellow beak.

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Kayaking the Hudson River

I’ve seen the Hudson River from the air, from the Metro North train tracks that parallel the river and from big and medium size small boats, but never, till now, from the level of the water in a kayak.

 

 

 

My friends and I put in on the western shore

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The Hudson River

2009 is almost over and I have yet to write that this year is the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of the Hudson River.

To be factual he didn’t really discover it. Native people had been living near

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Miracle On The Hudson

Miracles are wonderful things. What happened in New York City yesterday, when a US Airways plane crash-landed in the Hudson River and everyone survived, is a miracle.

According to Philosopher David Hume a miracle is “a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of

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