cleaving the murk

I heard the peepers last night when I took the dogs out. The daffodils have sent up shoots, and the air, while still cold, is cold-tinged-with-warm, instead of warm-tinged-with-cold.

I don't care what the calendar, the almanac, or the weathermen say...Spring is here.

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One swallow does not make a summer, 

but one skein of geese, 

cleaving the murk of March thaw, 

is the Spring. 

~ Aldo Leopold

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THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

We - humans - have got it all wrong. We're not superior. We're not so special. We don't have dominion over the planet and all its inhabitants - or rather, we shouldn't. We've underestimated our fellow travelers, and overestimated our importance in the grand scheme of things. We've got it all wrong.

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from the top of the house

I love rooms at the top of the house...

photos by trine thorenson

You know when you're

just about to go to sleep,

or you're just sort of,

you know, falling asleep...                  

and you think you're really falling,

so you catch yourself?

                  

That ever happen to you? You're

not falling, just falling asleep.

                 

There you go.

                  

When I was a little girl,                  

I always wanted to fly.                  

From the top of the house.                  

At night, I'd close my eyes,                 

and imagine I was on the roof,                 

looking down at my parents

in their bed.  

                  

And then I'd jump off...                  

and I'd fly...                  

While everyone was sleeping,                  

I'd be soaring around,                  

looking through their windows, 

                  

flying...

                 

and resting in the trees. 

                  

I always knew I could,                  

but I never told them.

                   

Once someone knows,

they can make you fall.

from Arizona Dream

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Fling off thy sadness!

Spring is coming...

I feel it in the soft air, see it in the tiny greening buds, hear it in the raucous calls of returning geese as they lumber across the sky...

I'm ready.

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Awake, thou wintry earth -

Fling off thy sadness!

Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth

Your ancient gladness!

~Thomas Blackburn

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that feelin'

This makes me happy. It reminds me that we humans are amazing, beautiful, complex creatures with the capacity for great joy for joy's sake.

My favorite bits? The dog at 2:03, and the little girl at 2:52 (!!!).

Don't stop believin'
Hold on to that feelin'

- Journey

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