Tag: blooming
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March 16, 2024
This extended, scary, snowless Minnesota winter highlights the marvelous time when the buds grow but don’t burst. These growing buds display a haze of promise against the sky. I love this promise, this hope, this subtle beauty even more than I love the blooming and blossoming of spring. Reactions: Johnny Pugh, Caren Gentry Whitehouse and…
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May 28, 2020
Every spring, for I don’t know how long, I’ve been traveling. Because of this I’ve missed the blooming of the crab apple tree in my front yard. This year, I sat on the porch and watched blossom after blossom unfold. Each one of them was revelatory. Each one of them was a gift—a present from…
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May 11, 2017
I once overheard a young kid who was bent over inspecting a flower say to his father, “Hold up, Dad. This is important.” That was many years ago. That kid would be a teenager now. I think about his words all the time, particularly in the spring. “Hold up,” I say to the adult in…
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March 23, 2017
Spring officially began earlier this week. Here, from Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, is the best definition of spring I have encountered: “Spring! And Earth is like a child who has learned many poems by heart.” The forsythia is not blooming quite yet. But it will be. And we will see the poem of spring recited…
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October 10, 2013
I have a lamp on my desk and morning glories blooming in my backyard. The days are getting shorter. But there is light everywhere, still. Still, there is light. Reactions: 273 Comments: 13 Original Post