A Diptych of Snowdrops

16 January 2021

Snowdrop

When you say, 'The earth is warming up
and you will get warm too', a snowdrop
peeks out from under the snow. She climbs up
from a gorge filled with melodies and dreams.

Mittens Make the News Again

As a mitten enthusiast and collector of Medieval Mitten Miracles (another post in the series coming soon), you can imagine my delight that the meme of the American presidential inauguration featured mittens.

Picture: Image credits: Brendan Smialowski. Source.

 And what mittens they are! 

Let Evening Come

Sunset, 16 September 2019

Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.

Goals for 2021

 Gentle reader, how do you mark the new year? My family typically has a holiday dinner on New Year's Day, and we went to First Night celebrations when I was a child, but I don't usually do much in the way of celebrating. This year marks the first year I stayed up to see in the new year, and that was mostly because some people in my neighbourhood set off some midnight fireworks. 

Like a lot of people, I often mark the new year by writing a set of resolutions. I rarely check back on or revisit these once I've written them in my journal.