Each day the flowering of plants and trees changes the landscape in subtle and sudden ways. Spring itself is opening up around us here and it is simply glorious. This morning, as I drove down Williams Road, I noticed the magnolia, burst in white flowers, layering soft, darker trees. When I stopped at the coffee shop the scent of it was lightly on everything. On mornings like this is best to just surrender to the amazement and wonder at it all and move through the day in a state of grace.
"…Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves just floating, floating….refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current; this is what we call the floating world…” Asai Ryoi, in Ukiyo Monogatari (Tales of the Floating World, 1661)
Friday, March 19, 2010
Spring, Subtle and Sudden
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