Winter Solstice, Full Moon, Blogoversary
Posted: 12/21/2010 Filed under: Nature, Poetry | Tags: blogoversary, ee cummings, i thank you god for most this amazing, lunar eclipse, solstice, winter solstice 6 Comments »One year ago today, A Life in Season was born.
What a journey this first year has been!
Like our lives, our blogs cycle between dormancy and activity.
Waxing and waning and waxing again.
Today: the winter solstice, the longest night of the year. The first day of winter. The rebirth of the sun!
Tonight: the full moon. The Oak Moon, the Cold Moon, the Long Night Moon.
Now: this poem. Whether to you God is God, or God is Nature, or God is nothing, I hope you find good in it.
Happy, happy solstice!
i thank you God for most this amazing
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any – lifted from the no
of all nothing – human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)
- e.e. cummings, from Complete Poems 1904-1962 (1994)
Laurie and Matt,
SOOOOOOOOO happy for you! Bennett’s pictures are precious!! He looks so peaceful in the blue hat …..and the beautiful smile in the red one! Priceless! Congratulations to both of you and to the grandparents too!!
Hi, Jolene! Thank you! So glad you found the blog. Bennett is a joy! And, of course, to us, the cutest baby in the world. =)
a special day indeed! ada turns 7 months today, on the oak/long/cold moon…
happy blog birthday to you! happy you are here. : )
ee cummings gets it right so very often. xo
Happy 7 Months to Ada! Such a special little one she is. Lots of love to all three of you!
Happy Blogaversary. Which is understandably nothing compared to the birth of your precious and absolutely adorable son Bennett.
But, if it weren’t for your blog, I would have never had a chance to learn so much from you (such as all the different ways people used to and still do call full moons – I never had a clue there were so many!); Walk in Season alongside you and Matt and witness the power of mother nature through the every-changing scenery; try many yummy recipes (like my facourite: ginger-lemon fizz); or through your beautiful pictures and wonderful words discover that somewhere-out-there another kindred soul lives and breathes the same air I do. And for that, I am forever thankful.
Jana, wow! I am so touched, and I am sending a hug of gratitude your way! Indeed, indeed, I am so glad that we two kindred spirits have had the chance to come to know each other. Happy, happy, happy holidays to you and Jordan!