Patience, Sun Power, and a Haiku
Today I am grateful for a strong back to lift and carry. I am also grateful for our kitchen table and all the things it holds and does for us.
Patience. A little bit goes a long way. Spring fever has hit. I have a full-blown case, as do most of the people I know who live in my part of the country. An unkind, unrelenting winter set us up for some serious cases of this fever known to cause joy and a mess at the same time. There will be mud. There will be muck. There will be a messy dog. There will be smiles for no reason other than the morning air doesn't shock a person's system. There will be levity at the brevity now required to get out the door. Boots, hat, and mittens along with several layers, are no longer required for every trip outdoors.
There will also be the requisite patience. All that snow piled up outside didn't get there in a week. It's not going away in a week. From several layers to shorts and a t-shirt may be what we feel like wearing, but our patience will remind us it is best to remove covering incrementally. And after that glorious 50 degrees on Monday, yesterday the high temperature didn't get out of the twenties. Spring fever will take some time to run its course.
But hope is not hard to find. The sun is so much more powerful now than it was a few weeks ago. Even the cold days don't feel as cold. Besides being more powerful, the sun is also out longer. We are literally coming out of the darkness.
Fittingly, my sister Aileen posted this haiku on her blog Poetic License: Poetry and Commentary on Current Events
Haiku
That sound, soft and moist
far below the melting snow,
is it spring breathing?
Thanks Aileen! Indeed, I think it is spring breathing. And for that I am so grateful.
Patience. A little bit goes a long way. Spring fever has hit. I have a full-blown case, as do most of the people I know who live in my part of the country. An unkind, unrelenting winter set us up for some serious cases of this fever known to cause joy and a mess at the same time. There will be mud. There will be muck. There will be a messy dog. There will be smiles for no reason other than the morning air doesn't shock a person's system. There will be levity at the brevity now required to get out the door. Boots, hat, and mittens along with several layers, are no longer required for every trip outdoors.
There will also be the requisite patience. All that snow piled up outside didn't get there in a week. It's not going away in a week. From several layers to shorts and a t-shirt may be what we feel like wearing, but our patience will remind us it is best to remove covering incrementally. And after that glorious 50 degrees on Monday, yesterday the high temperature didn't get out of the twenties. Spring fever will take some time to run its course.
But hope is not hard to find. The sun is so much more powerful now than it was a few weeks ago. Even the cold days don't feel as cold. Besides being more powerful, the sun is also out longer. We are literally coming out of the darkness.
Fittingly, my sister Aileen posted this haiku on her blog Poetic License: Poetry and Commentary on Current Events
Haiku
That sound, soft and moist
far below the melting snow,
is it spring breathing?
Thanks Aileen! Indeed, I think it is spring breathing. And for that I am so grateful.
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