Waiting in the Dark
Learning to see after artificial lights fade | The Word in the Wild, Epiphany 5, Year B
Last February, around this time, my family drove long miles through the deserts of Texas—tumbleweeds rolling across the pavement and roadrunners darting from creosote bushes. Moving south, then west, then south again, we took a left up a winding road, following the ridge of an ancient vol…