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The curious fact of a monk who occasionally describes the sunset as “whorehouse pink.”

The impression is of someone paying close attention to the world around him - noticing so much. Raises an awareness of how much time I spend staring into screens, into the void of the unreal. Have I lost my ability to notice like that? Also staggered by just how much time Merton must have spent journaling and reading every day.