Tag: sun
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January 24, 2023
Ramona and I were taking a walk on a cloudy day last week. We passed the library doors just as a mother and child exited. The child (four or five years old) was carrying a stack of books. CHILD: So right now, we will go home and read. We will read and read and read.…
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April 30, 2020
If there was ever a year when we needed to see an impossible blossom . . . If there was ever a time when we needed the riotous promise of spring . . . Into this darkness, there comes a bursting out, a breaking forth, an insistence on light, renewal. What can you do but…
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February 15, 2018
I’ve been keeping track each day (in my morning notebook) of when the sun rises and sets. Each day–a little earlier with the rising, a little later with the setting. Each day–a little more light. The other morning, as I noted down the times of the rising and settings, I wrote “I wonder why I’m…
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February 2, 2017
Here in Minneapolis, we went for a nine-day stretch with no sun, and I found myself looking for light in other places: the faces of friends, the faces of strangers, bird wings, books, dogs, old photos. Here is a photo of a sunrise at the cabin over two years ago. It cheers me up just…
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February 23, 2016
I was up north at a friend’s cabin over the weekend. On Friday, I took a long walk by myself. The skies were grey. I saw no cars, no people. And then, right before I got back to the cabin, a deer crossed the road in front of me. And then another deer. And then…
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August 25, 2015
Dispatch from the cabin: sunset on Round Lake. I look at this picture–at my friends—and I think: is all that light coming from the sun? Or is it emanating from those people gathered together? Both, I guess. There is always light to be seen if you look. And even more light to be found in…