I love spring.
my walk home was a feast for the senses. I smelled rainforest, Ireland, wood smoke, fresh laundry. I heard happy twittering birds, someone whistling Ode to Joy, a mourning dove.
I'm glad God loves spring too. why else would he shower confetti all over the place. the white petals drifting over campus are beautiful to watch (from the safety of the library where i don't have to smell them...eww). I think my favorite is the vibrant green confetti falling around our house. dotting the mud and the naked yard, making it feel like, well, not really like a party. more like royalty or a bride is coming. ooh, that's cool! lent is almost over.
in many ways i'm getting tired of not seeing the sun, or at least not for very long. i'm tired of the smell of moist wood in our house, and all the other odd smells it gives off in the dampness. the stuffiness in my head from allergies? but, i can't get over how alive green things look right now. how the air feels like it is offering something nurturing to the earth, to me.
it's sprinkling again. what a beautiful sound. refreshing and renewing. just what i need.
Random Thought: actually it's not random...it's surprisingly 'coincidental'. yesterday i glanced at some notes i had taken out of my c.s. lewis folder. i had written "LOTR, I want to be an elf -they provide rest in chaos". Late last night i was flipping through a journal i like to make lists in and saw "Elves provide rest in chaos. -I want to be an elf. LOTR". I would imagine i copied the second note from the first, but i sure was surprised to see them on the same day!
it made me wonder, What would Faber have done if i had made my mission statement "My mission is to be an Elf."?!
(sorry the post and random thought were so long, i couldn't decide which one i wanted to be the thought and which the post, till i walked home)
2 comments:
I think that Faber wouldn't have minded, As long as you explained it as beautiously as your random mind is able.
green is an excellent color.
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