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| Serafina's Farm In August.... |
Today I heard that the hours of sunlight today were the same as on my birthday, August 20th. I felt like a celebration and a reminder of how the light continues to change, growing stronger, higher, hours to its fullness, then moving toward more hours of darkness than light. Today the sun was not only growing longer, but there was the heat of sun. You could feel it on your face, on the back of the neck. The car was really toasty warm when I got inside. This spring has so much that feels different, an incredible March with really, really hot weather. A very mild winter, and now it is so over and the sun has once again risen. Higher, longer and hotter. This year so many days that feel not just like spring, but more like summer. April has brought some rain, but also lots of flowers, lots and lots of flowers. The bursting forth is so unexpected, and because I was gone for three weeks, it all feels that much sooner. I missed that soft, slow unfolding from winter to spring. Maybe we all did. It just landed all in one full moment, green bursting forth, buds opening, flowers blooming, trees leafing and grass growing long and green. The birds are chirping, the rabbits seem very fat, it was a good winter for them. And I am mulling over the hours of sunlight, marveling that April 24th has the exact same number of minutes as my birthday. Tomorrow there will be a minute or two longer. Until we are at Solstice, and you can almost feel the little ones of the earth dancing, and singing and rejoicing in the fullness of the light. How fine, shoulders are full down, no need to scrunch under the cold. Spring is here. The sun is summer like high in the sky. And the wholeness of it all seems to the celebrating with each brighter moment of the sun.
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