An Ode to Thanksgiving

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An Ode to Thanksgiving by Leah Buturain Schneider I am sitting in a leather chair on the second floor of Fuller’s David Allan Hubbard Library looking at a beautiful six-feet high installation of vintage Persian tiles. Thank you to the person who donated these tiles, and to the ones who conserved the treasures now assembled on the second floor of the library. Fresh grass green, mustard yellow, salmon pink, indigo blue, chocolate brown, purple hyacinth, peach blush, linen cream, emerald green, colors that like our Fuller community constellate a mosaic of jewel tones and earthen elements all in praise of the Creator.

researchers, administrators, and support staff. The main composition of slender graceful branches that curve and intersect as they overlap bearing blossoms, some buds, some burgeoning, and others full bloom attracting a dozen birds all of varying shades of feathers and shapes and perches. We students and professors who study here are birds flocking here, some on the end of the branches taking out books to study elsewhere and others ensconced in the middle of the thicket soon after the doors open at 9 a.m.

How fortunate we are to flock together here in this amazing season of seed and nectar, of The beauty of the Persian carbloom and blossom, with abunpet motif in the border tiles that dant foliage to hide and blend frame the central composition is and some to contrast, all beautilike the seminary that supports ful, all belonging. the library, attracting scholars, Thank you books for standing 10


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