Many wonderful coincidences and reunitings often took place at Quarry Hill in October. One boy who grew up part of his life at QH was born in October, after his mother changed her mind about aborting him because we offered to raise the child if she did not want it.
In years after, she was happy that she had not had the abortion… I am not saying abortion can never be a correct choice, though we generally hoped women would avoid it.
In checking (idly) the Internet for the idea of a month of Miracles, I found the concept in Judaism, where it is, however, the month of Nisan, a spring month.
In Portuagal on Oct. 13, 1917, a supposedly miraculous event occurred and was seen by thousands of people, having been predicted by three chiildren who had seen the Virgin Mary there at Fatima. The sun spun, turned colors, and plunged towards the earth.
This, however, was never the Quarry Hill kind of miracle. Our miracles were usually miracles of the human spirit, of interaction, of awakening, and of the beauty of the mountains around us as the leaves changed.
I can still feel that magic. Quarry Hill still has that sense of a place where, as Irving liked to say, "time and eternity intersect."
Miracles can happen at any moment.
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