It might be spring
Blog Post by Michael Lipsey - Mar.02.2008 - 10:57 pm
"Any kind of weather will do if you are an indoorsy person."
Spring is here, perhaps, with a few fits and starts -- and here in paradise...
"In California the weather is wonderful, but people complain about it just as much."
And I am getting out my spring flowers and my spring epigrams, such as:
"On a beautiful day you can bathe in the air."
Last fall I cleared out a section of our lot that we had never used before:
"When you have poison oak you love nature a little less."
And yet, "My backyard is wilderness enough."
And while pulling a few weeds I see that:
"An ant doesn't look like it knows where it's going, but it does."
Time to put up the hammock between two oaks...
About Michael
Michael Lipsey grew up in Chicago, a city that does not like to waste words, and after forty years in California, the Chicago still shows in his writing. He read the Great Books at Shimer College and remains an active observer of intellectual, religious and...
Causes Michael Lipsey Supports
Marin Agricultural Land Trust, Nature Conservancy





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