First Day of Spring

Between a lively day of work, a series of meetings, a quiet afternoon hour in a town park, and a pleasant dinner with a friend, yesterday's official arrival of spring included much activity... fitting, it seems to me, for a season characterized by new life, revival, and a healthy degree of delightful mystery.

Spring buds
College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA

Morses Pond Land
Wellesley MA

"Praying"

It doesn't have to be

the blue iris, it could be

weeds in a vacant lot, or a few

small stones; just

pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don't try

to make them elaborate, this isn't

a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which

another voice may speak.

– Mary Oliver

[From Thirst: Poems by Mary Oliver]