Where there is an end, there is also a beginning. A whale is majestic, impossibly enormous, silently mysterious creature that has been roaming the seas like some kind of ancient god. It spends the bulk of its time doing who-knows-what unseen in the deep deep water. What we know about whales barely scratches the surface. What we do know is a creature as majestic as this is not going to quietly decompose and sink into nothing when its life comes to an end. It’s too big for t
A poem for you, celebrating what it is to be spring. Rainy, and at the same time everything new. And we are still here. Spell against indifference ~Maria Popova The rain falls and falls cool, bottomless, and prehistoric falls like night -- not an ablution not a baptism just a small reason to remember all we know of Heaven to remember we are still here with our love songs and our wars our space telescopes and our table tennis Here too in the wet grass half a shell of a robin
