just outside our dreams

 

"Human remains and items found" read the headlines today, in the ongoing Florida search for Brian Laundrie.

---------------------- [CBS News] --------------- The FBI confirmed Wednesday that authorities have found "what appears to be human remains" at the site where they were searching for Brian Laundrie.  Michael McPherson, special agent in charge of the FBI's Tampa field office, also said authorities found personal items nearby -- including a backpack and notebook -- that they believe belong to Laundrie.

The suspected human remains were found in an area previously underwater, the FBI said.  Authorities are investigating whether the remains belong to Brian Laundrie. --------------------- [end, CBS News excerpt]

...found in an area previously underwater -- would a notebook survive hanging out underwater for a period of -- what -- days?  Nights?  Weeks?

-------------------- Does this seem real?

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[excerpt from

Human Life's Mystery

a poem by

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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II

The senses folding thick and dark

        About the stifled soul within

We guess diviner things beyond,

And yearn to them with yearning fond;

We strike out blindly to a mark

        Believed in, but not seen.

III

We vibrate to the pant and thrill

        Wherewith Eternity has curled

In serpent-twine about God's seat;

While, freshening upward to His feet,

In gradual growth His full-leaved will

        Expands from world to world.

IV

And, in the tumult and excess

        Of act and passion under sun

We sometimes hear -- oh, soft and far

As silver star did touch with star,

The kiss of Peace and Righteousness

        Through all things that are done

V

God keeps his holy mysteries

Just on the outside of man's dream....

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