The National Weather Service has a graphic on Twitter suggesting Winter lovers should cheer up because, despite the upcoming warming, many of our largest snowfalls occur in March and April. Based on my experience, that's true. It's also true that longer days and a sun that keeps climbing higher in the sky mean that the snow is likely to melt sooner than not. That's the good news for those of us who tolerate, rather than love Winter.
April 19, 2013 snowfall
Photo by J. Harrington
April 23, 2013 snow melt
Photo by J. Harrington
It seems as though Mother Nature and the National Weather Service have figured out how to please most of the people, most of the time. Now, can we get them to offer lessons in people pleasing to our politicians? Or have most of us become consistently too hard to please too much of the time?
Please Don't
tell the flowers—they thinkthe sun loves them.The grass is under the samesimple-minded impression
about the rain, the fog, the dew.And when the wind blows,it feels so goodthey lose control of themselves
and swobtoggle wildlyaround, bumping accidentally into theirslender neighbors.Forgetful little lotus-eaters,
solar-poweredhydroholics, drawing nourishment upthrough stems into theirthin green skin,
high on the expensivechemistry of mitochondrial explosion,believing that the dirtloves them, the night, the stars—
reaching down a little deeperwith their pale albino roots,all DizzyGillespie with the uttersufficiency of everything.
They don't imagine lawnmowers, the four stomachsof the cow, or human beings with bootswho stop to marvel
at their exsquisiteflexibility and color.They persist in their soft-headed
hallucination of happiness.But please don't mention it.Not yet. Tell mewhat would you possibly gain
from being right?
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