Yesterday, unexpectedly I went to Philadelphia and Princeton with Charlie, a Maryknoller. It took for about two hours by car from here in Ossining, New York to Philadelphia(86 miles),and we looked around the historic sites of Philadelphia including the Independance Hall and the Liberty Bell, and also Princeton University at Princeton town on the way back. Princeton is a university town, And it is well known university in the States probably as you know well. I came back at about ten last evening. And last night I couldn't almost got a sleep. But now I am very okay. Just before I wrote an essay for myself. I really wanted to write about something that gave me a meaningful insight/inspiration of this early morning, though I am very well realized that my English so poor to write something that I think. However because I now cannot write in Korean on this computor in the library, I wrote it reluctantly and copied it on this board, for sharing it with some of you who accept me. The title is [Awakened in silence]. That was basically written by my thought in this early morning. Pls Enjoy it...
Until four fourty in this early morning, although I have already quite good accustomed in my room of Maryknoll,I couldn't sleep well.
That is presumably because I drank too much coffee with Charlie yesterday while I was travelling for Philadelphia which has a good number of historical sites and Princeton which is surrounded by woods, and with quiet.
I left my bed I laid on with my eyes closed but my conscious wasn't still laid on with, and look out,leaning on the window, a bit slight hazy daybreak appeared on the roof and surrouding the woods of Maryknoll. Pushing consciously down my feeling under the darkness, that I wanted to go out to walk on the ground surrounded by woods, I had just gazed into the dawn,through my consciousness, that was still somewhat the dark and also was getting the bright.
All was calm just like the first dawning of the creation, and that is also like a death that might be happened in a day of the future. All was calm, really calm! In silence, I faced 'silence' of the daybreak of the first day of creation at the moment,and, at the same time, faced 'silence' of the last moment of the death. While I was pondering over the thought, the un-awakened people yet in this mansion and i who lonely awakened overlapped on the roof of this mansion that are still surrounded by the misty of this early morning.
It's so amazing that the awakening lonely in silence at the early morning and glancing secretly the skirt of the silence of daybreak as well.
In Ossining, New York on the next day of Independence Day of U.S.A(your paradise called by someone)