'Tis the season of? / for?

As we approach mid-April, we find ourselves in the midst of:

• Spring(?)
• Passover
• Easter Season
• A worldwide coronavirus pandemic

Today is simultaneously Good Friday and Sibling's Day. The stock market is closed.

bloodroot blossoms

Photo by J. Harrington

Wildflowers such as bloodroot are coming into bloom.

Minnesota is under a #Stay-At-Home order until May 4. Yesterday the COVID-19 death total in Minnesota climbed by 7 to 57.

Easter Sunday could bring us 1 to 2 inches of snow, with more forecast South and East of us, unless the storm track changes.

I'm not sure how you're doing these days but I'm finding it increasingly challenging to maintain balance and perspective amidst all the "on the  one hand, on the other" reports. I think it was Harry Truman who once claimed that "if you stacked all the economists in the world end-to-end, they wouldn't reach a conclusion." I feel much the same these days about politicians, especially those who put staying in power ahead of their constituents health and safety.

Fortunately, April is also National Poetry Month and we have been blessed with many great and wonderful poets whose poems help me, and I hope each of you, to remember and act on who and what's most important. Poets such as Gary Snyder and poems such as 

For the Children

by Gary Snyder

The rising hills, the slopes,
of statistics
lie before us,
the steep climb
of everything, going up,
up, as we all
go down.

In the next century
or the one beyond that,
they say,
are valleys, pastures,
we can meet there in peace
if we make it.

To climb these coming crests
one word to you, to
you and your children:

stay together
learn the flowers
go light

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