I’LL TAKE IT ALL

A blog friend of mine posted this poem on Instagram last night and it struck me hard…it’s nearly exactly how I feel about spring and the coming of the green, even if the winter treated me well, or at least, not badly. Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees that really gets to me. When all the shock of white...