These days, majesty makes itself
known in a number of simple ways. There’s the whiteness of snow, for instance –
a widespread and stately presence all around us. Delycia and I are in the snowy
regions of Massachusetts today, and the sunlight on the snow makes it shine in
a resplendent way. There’s something solemn about these hills when they’re
wrapped in such robes of snow, almost as if they’re the home of kings and
queens, with unseen sumptuous snow castles somewhere among them. I also noticed
this morning the majesty of simple people showing their graciousness – an older
couple sitting as dignified as a duke and duchess, a man wearing his coat in a
kingly way, a woman steering her wheelchair with a certain kind of
magnificence. Even the table in a mall where I’m writing this has a clean and
correct appearance, as if prepared for a prince, perhaps even a somewhat shabby
but spirited senior-citizen prince waiting for his wife.
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