Martin Shaw

Patrick, as we call him, dear steel-eyed Padre Paddy of the many conversions, even Patrick couldn't waste the opportunity of saying, tell me the stories of your father.

And as an old man, he was 300 years old, and he still spoke with that strange antlered tongue.

He said, I will tell you, my father, if the rivers of the world were spun of pure silver, if the leaves on the trees were pure gold, my father would have given them all away.

That's your story.

All right.

Good.

We'll leave it at that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That was the one that came today.

That's a beautiful thing, isn't it?

And in a book, it's like five sentences.

This is what you need to do is to curate these things lovingly.

Tell them to your children or your animals or somebody, and they just get purchased in you.

And they bang up against your own sorrows and your own beauty.

And you're to not be afraid of that.

Never be afraid of that.

Just lean into it.

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And of course, I had forgotten, of course, that it's only because Patrick writes these stories down that we know them.