Good morning! It’s a rainy spring day here and I can’t say I mind. The trees are lush and swollen and it’s this capacity for generous green that I always forget is possible. I’m reading Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May (of course I am reading a book about literal and metaphorical winter right when summer is about to arrive) and I’ve learned — though I knew it before, this time I’m hearing it in a different way — that the processes of trees is the perfect analogy for periods of feast or famine, those highs and lows, peaks and dips we all experience but that our culture has somehow deemed unnatural and something to be avoided lest we be seen as morally weak at best, or mentally unstable. What I mean right now, this morning, is that I appreciate trees — their spectacular, unfailing beauty as well as their ability to rest and conserve their resources and wait with the certainty of beings that are billions of years old and so, so much wiser than we are.
Can we read? No. 38
Can we read? No. 38
Can we read? No. 38
Good morning! It’s a rainy spring day here and I can’t say I mind. The trees are lush and swollen and it’s this capacity for generous green that I always forget is possible. I’m reading Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May (of course I am reading a book about literal and metaphorical winter right when summer is about to arrive) and I’ve learned — though I knew it before, this time I’m hearing it in a different way — that the processes of trees is the perfect analogy for periods of feast or famine, those highs and lows, peaks and dips we all experience but that our culture has somehow deemed unnatural and something to be avoided lest we be seen as morally weak at best, or mentally unstable. What I mean right now, this morning, is that I appreciate trees — their spectacular, unfailing beauty as well as their ability to rest and conserve their resources and wait with the certainty of beings that are billions of years old and so, so much wiser than we are.