After Purple
“Will you kindly fasten your seat-belts and observe the no-smoking sign …”
I almost burst with joy. We were just two minutes from takeoff! In one hour, twenty minutes, we would be touching down at Lourdes, and in less than one short day, I would be making my First Communion in the largest Catholic basilica in the world, with my new Catholic family thronging and rejoicing all around me. Thirteen weeks had drifted away like feathers. The Christmas holidays had merged into the Easter ones, wint...er into spring. Blood-red holly berries had given way to bridal almond blossom. My soul was no longer bleak and bruised and purple, but shining singing white.
The plane blazed into action as if someone had set a match to it. I sat and burned. I could feel the engines throbbing through my body, as it slowly turned, paused, inched, stopped, and then suddenly, astoundingly, roared along the runway — fast, faster, faster, the tarmac under it only a streak of grey hurtling speed.MoreLess
I almost burst with joy. We were just two minutes from takeoff! In one hour, twenty minutes, we would be touching down at Lourdes, and in less than one short day, I would be making my First Communion in the largest Catholic basilica in the world, with my new Catholic family thronging and rejoicing all around me. Thirteen weeks had drifted away like feathers. The Christmas holidays had merged into the Easter ones, wint...er into spring. Blood-red holly berries had given way to bridal almond blossom. My soul was no longer bleak and bruised and purple, but shining singing white.
The plane blazed into action as if someone had set a match to it. I sat and burned. I could feel the engines throbbing through my body, as it slowly turned, paused, inched, stopped, and then suddenly, astoundingly, roared along the runway — fast, faster, faster, the tarmac under it only a streak of grey hurtling speed.MoreLess
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