The Music of the Sun

Tim breesly finds that his eyes are wet. The others begin to play their instruments, and then he gives the mandolin a tentative strum. It's a song these two know from the church they went to as kids. All of them move together and apart in the fading light. Lo and tor alone remain ed. For lu my father, the music and the dancing provoke a riot of alarmed awareness. With a precience that will distinguish him to the end of his life, lou understands that the change he's been awaiting is upon him now. He has reached its source. Can feel it in the soles of his feet. But he knows that he's too old to