"No measure of human grief can stop Earth in its tracks. Earth rolls into sunlight and rolls away again, continents glowing green and gold under the clouds. Trust this, and there will come a time when dogged, desperate trust in the world will break open into wonder. Wonder leads to gratitude. Gratitude opens onto peace." (103)

Kathleen Dean Moore, Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature. Trumpeter, Boston, 2010.

Yesterday was sunny and in the low 60s, and I kept finding reasons to go out into the day. Clear more winter debris from the lawns. Take a walk. Take the pruning shears and wander in the woods, hunt poison ivy climbing tree trunks, and the invasive multiflora rose. Be sure to greet everything.

Some of the skunk cabbage plants are already standing tall, in vigorous green leaf. Some are still at blossom stage, and some of those as pairs looking almost like praying hands.