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Spring Equinox 2021


photo by Adam Woliver


Spring


Nothing is so beautiful as Spring – When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden. – Have, get, before it cloy, Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy, Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning. -GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS


photo by Kate Ter Haar

At the Spring equinox the sun rises exactly in the east, travels through the sky for 12 hours and then sets exactly in the west. So all over the Earth, at this special moment, day and night are of equal length hence the word equinox which means ‘equal night’. For those of us here in the northern hemisphere, it is this equinox that brings us out of our winter. Hooray! For Mother Nature it is a time of renewal, of rebirth. It is a time to shed negative energies accumulated over the dark, heavy winter months preparing the way for the positive growing energy of spring and summer.


Gerard Manley Hopkins writes, “What is all this juice and all this joy?” Just listen to and watch the birds, or observe blossoms as they open.



Happy Spring!


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