A Psalm for Alex, A Hymn for Life, 10 April 2010

I’m in one of those horrid, hard green swings at the farm near my house, the gift of which is that it affords me the view I most adore here – looking westward over the wide, long panorama of green fields as the sun backlights the landscape.

We have at last emerged from the drenching yellow haze of all grades of pollen into a day the likes of which we seldom see – one of such absolute sharpness and clarity, definition and intensity of color, that one wonders what Life would look like to us if we daily had such sharp vision. Continue reading →