Just-spring

It isn't really. Spring, I mean. Officially that doesn't start till the equinox on March 20th.

But lately it feels as if it has begun, as if we are in what e.e.cummings calls:

Just-

spring          when the world is mud-

luscious

Certainly, round here the world is extremely mud-luscious and on a dull drizzly day it can look very much like winter still.

But, corny as it is, it's impossible not to feel a stir of delight, greeting the return of the familiar elements as one might greet old friends: snowdrops and crocuses, lengthening days, urgent birdsong. There's a kindness to the air. Such a tender, hopeful time of year it is.

Happy Just-spring!

 

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Just-spring is a post from: Jane Eagland

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