It is unimaginably spring today. It seems all the birds have returned. The trees are dropping pollen to beat the band. Those of us with spring allergies don*t even have to see the pollen to know it is there. Still, it seems imperative to open up all the windows and doors and bring the outside to the inside. The cat is already exhausted from watching the birds in the backyard. He is now sound asleep. I don*t know whether it is pollen or the sheer outside-ness that makes me sleepy at lunchtime today. It is not just the natural world, either. It*s cars and trains and sirens and airplanes, distant noises when the house is all cocooned for the winter. No more of that muffle that snow provides, either.
Consider this:
Part of Lent for me is newly paying attention. Or perhaps paying attention to new things. What do you notice today that was missing even yesterday? Maybe it is part of the natural world, maybe not. It is different for each of us. We are each given different things to notice, I think. We get all bollixed up inside when others don*t notice the same things we do. Sometimes we question our own insight. Sometimes we question what others see. What do you notice today that was missing yesterday? With whom can you share the insight? To whom might you ask the same question?
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