Today, another sunny fall day, I took my camera and went on a walk looking for the beauty of fall trees. I did not have to go far to find some. Our next door neighbor has planted a small tree in his front yard that turned fire red this fall.

In life, as in this fall walk, we do not have to go far to find beauty. We just need eyes to see and ears to hear. Sadly the same could be same for the ugly. Blessings and peace surround us, as do curses and violence.

The beauty of fall was around me today in nature, and by email I was reminded of the ugliness of nuclear destruction. The article in the National Catholic Reporter was about the pre-trial of some Catholic Workers who are trying to stop the construction of a new nuclear bomb plant in Kansas City, the nation’s first new major nuclear weapons production facility in 32 years. After the court sessions two of the defendants went over to the city council to disrupt the meeting and demand they stop the plant. The picture of these two shows them full of fire yelling “start telling the truth” regarding the funding of the new nuclear plant. As police escorted the two out of the council chambers one of them told reporters they were acting in the tradition of Old Testament prophets and “just doing what the holy men did.”

The two were on fire decrying the ugliness of this new nuclear plant, as the tree was on fire with the beauty of fall.

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