Sunday January 8, 2023

Goodnight friends! Fitful and temperamental bursts of rain, starting and stopping, ferocious and a tip-tapping haze of drizzle. More hints of spring slowly gathering its strength, blueish sheaves of narcissus stems and uncoiling lush banners of water-pearled arum leaves.

Went out for a walk with my girlfriend to the woods, where we were impressed to find a pair of glossy oil drum-thick gimlet-eyed pigs, one peachy pale and the other the same rich earthy black as the mud they churned up. We spent most of the day together, time whirred and stood still while we did some writing, made some lunch, everyday moments expanded and jewel-toned.

May we find a sense of explosive wonder and delight today, alive to the suddenness of joy all around us!