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Mooreeffoc (?)
It goes like this, for those of you who are readers of J.R.R. Tolkien:
“Of course, fairy-stories are not the only means of recovery, or prophylactic against loss. Humility is enough. And there is (especially for the humble) Mooreeffoc, or Chestertonian Fantasy. Mooreeffoc is a fantastic word, but it could be seen written up in every town in this land. It is Coffee-room, viewed from the inside through a glass door, as it was seen by Dickens on a dark London day; and it was used by Chesterton to denote the queerness of things that have become trite, when they are seen suddenly from a new angle… recovery of freshness of vision is its only virtue… it is mainly trying to do something else (make something new), may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds. The gems all turn to flowers or flames, and you will be warned that all you had (or knew) was dangerous and potent, not really effectively chained, free and wild; no more yours than they were you.” *
*”THE TOLKIEN READER” 1966 by J.R.R. Tolkien; Pg. 77 & 78; “Tree and Leaf”
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Mountains… or Trees?
What you see here is a mountain, and odd shaped clouds above it… that’s what caught my eye during an early morning hike with my wife near the Kramer Mtn. where we lived in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. But no! What this is is an exact duplication of the trees on the top of the mountain, their shadows being projected by the sun onto the clouds above the mountain.
“MOOREEFFOC”
Many things in life are not what we may at first perceive them to be. A longer look, a bit of patience, and we may just see them for what they truly are! People are that way. God is that way. Every day. Slow down. Be, as you were taught as a child, at the Railroad Crossing:
STOP – LOOK – LISTEN
