Tag: winter
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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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December 22, 2020
A few days ago I had occasion to read aloud one of my very favorite passages in all of literature. As I read, I was suffused with a sudden light and warmth and comfort. And so I thought I would put E.B. White’s words (Charlotte’s words) here for you, too. Maybe you will read them…
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January 1, 2015
I was looking through the photos on my phone, trying to find one that looked right for this first day of a new year. Here is what I came up with—two trees in winter. And the trees in winter made me think of these wondrous words from Charlotte’s Web. “Winter will pass, the days will…
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April 5, 2011
Some words for spring from E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web: “For Wilbur, nothing in life was so important as this small round object—nothing else mattered. Patiently he awaited the end of winter and the coming of the little spiders. Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or…