Summer mysteries born of earth, air, water and fire

Summer mysteries born of earth, air, water and fire

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Eugene Cullen Kennedy  |  Jul. 15, 2013

The elements thought by the early philosophers to have exploded out of the very eye of the hurricane of creation that scattered the galaxies across the cosmos -- earth, air, water and fire -- turned, as uncontrollable storms do, to wail and burn and wash over us all, leaving us, as religious mystery does, blinded by its light and unable to hurl even a word into the maw of its enveloping force.