The Beginning of Green
I’m not sure how to say what I want to say. Only that spring is at last returning, but don’t look up to find it. It’s not in the sky, or even the trees. Green ...
Category: spring
Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Spring”
Nothing is so beautiful as Spring – When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;&n...
Fools of Spring
May Day, and the bells ring out in distant Oxford, and the grass grows green on the sunny side of the house, and the blackbirds make a racket in the bracken, an...
Kingdom Field Notes: Mother Junco’s Secret
Little mother junco knows a secret. The tilt of her head outside the kitchen window tells me so. She knows the place where heaven and earth meet, somewhere in t...
A great change
The sap is flowing! The geese are returning! The world is shifting and a great change is about to come. Now the dead will be shown for what they are. In the win...