Newsletter for July 25

Jesus walking on water
It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines,
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.
 
Fishermen in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands.
—from "Keeping Quiet," by Pablo Neruda

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Jesus walking on water
Walking on Water, by Ivan Aivazovsky (1888)

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