Sorrowful day, Advent--

Laura Frankstones, study of Velazquez,"The Immaculate Conception"www.laurelines.com

We human beings, given the lovely, strange gift of consciousness, can attempt to understand one another, can rejoice in the great variety and various hopes in the world. We can attempt to understand another's point of view, and the reasons why his or her opinions and feelings are not ours and make a kind of