The Last of It



The chaplain of Syracuse University's Newman Association — as my father tells it — used to shake his head when students, anxious to shed heavy coats and slip on jackets, would pronounce spring attendant. "One more big storm left," Father would warn his flock. And the snow would sweep down and in.

Nearly forty years later, here, by the grace of God and the arctic: Easter squalls. Apropos, thunder crashed just now.

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