#881 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Tuesday March 19)
Good morning,
THE SPRING EQUINOX
We are back at the equinox. Days and nights are of equal length and days will continue to get longer until the Summer Solstice. Spring is in the air. The days are warmer. Flowers are blooming and summer fruits are starting to show up in greater number and more delicious sweetness.
SPRING POETRY
Primavera
By Louse Gluck
Spring comes quickly: overnight
the plum tree blossoms,
the warm air fills with bird calls.
In the plowed dirt, someone has drawn a picture of the sun
with rays coming out all around
but because the background is dirt, the sun is black.
There is no signature.
Alas, very soon everything will disappear:
the bird calls, the delicate blossoms. In the end,
even the earth itself will follow the artist’s name into oblivion.
Nevertheless, the artist intends
a mood of celebration.
How beautiful the blossoms are – emblems of the resilience of life.
The birds approach eagerly.
AND A CLOSING FROM ALBERT CAMUS, AS WE ENTER SPRING AND THE SEASON OF RENEWAL
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”
Have a great day,
Glenn