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Reflections (II)

2021

Pecos Mission, New Mexico 1621, 1680 fred woods

Not even bright sierras ponderosa high stacked thunderheads or drafting eagles were enough for Fray Andres Juarez who had Cicuic women mold earth to bricks and layer on layer build higher up to please dear God out-glorying nature with a church not big but biggest and six towers directing eyes to moon stars heaven and away from heathen ways beneath bare earth humble useless save when shaped to bricks to build a church. Until those congregants rose up tore it down dug a pit built a kiva and returned to earth.

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