She wrote rhetorically,
“Do falling stars fall
during the day?” He stop-
ped reading and started
laughing, “Does God speak
in silence?” Then he thought
about what he had been
reading, Teaching A Rock
To Talk. He thought about
a clergy colleague who once,
out of the blue, asked him
if he liked rocks. He laughed
then, too, but for different
reasons. The late colleague
was a sculptor who asked
rocks what they could be and
the answer was the sculpture.
The sculptor heard rocks talk.