After a summer away from the mic, Sunday Reflections returns. A phone call from his son at college pulls Gideon outside just in time to watch something he'd walked past for years — egrets filling a tree not one at a time, but all at once. A reflection on what it means that our futures, human and otherwise, were bound together long before we agreed to it.

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