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Water and Mystery

I have a question for you,  to think about, to answer and to write down. It's this:  The dove left the protected Ark  and Jonah, left the harbor to go to Nineveh.  What do they have in common, in your opinion, apart from a name a mission over water? Storms? And loneliness?  What’s your opinion of loneliness?  Imagine them in their loneliness. A myriad people in the rising water  and the children who reached the peak of Ararat  swollen with water?  And as for that man Jonah,  a person who regretted that an entire city was not destroyed after you prophesied what he had to do…I’m sorry I’ve answered your question with a question. I’ve also gone from the abstract to the simple, Perhaps plural-what can I do, I am that kind of Jew.  –  John Donne G ood questions are always better  than  good answers.  It intimates a hungry, yearning  mind.