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Flashes of Brilliance

I want to thank you for your inspiring article about Sister Pauline of La Casa de Maria.

I want to thank you for your inspiring article about Sister Pauline of La Casa de Maria.

Because of her unexpected flashes of brilliance, I often think of her as a pivot word. In Japanese poetics these special terms go by the name kake kotoba. An English-friendly example is matsu (pines), as in

wind of autumn pines
upon the mountainside
as day declines