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Signs of Spring
Vibrant powders tossed during the Hindu festival of Holi are tinted with turmeric dye. Blooming daffodils on New Year’s Day foretell good luck in the coming year. During Songkran, Buddha statues are bathed in water infused with the fragrance of jasmi
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The Sensual and Divine Earth
WE WERE YOUNG and eager river guides, and every spring after the winter rains, my friends and I traveled to the foothills of Northern California to scout the rivers. All around, flaming crimson Indian paintbrush bloomed, and the chattering of bank sw
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The Other Bibles
1. ONE OF THE MOST astounding Bibles I know lives only two hours up the road from me in Collegeville, Minnesota, at St. John’s University. The Saint John’s Bible, one of the first Bibles to be written and illuminated by hand since Gutenberg’s inventi

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