Wednesday 27.10.2021

 Could get slightly obsessed with these early morning/late afternoon perambulations on top of our little hill.

Yesterday morning, even earlier than usual, we were under a low grey lid of cloud, a foreshadowing of the rain that came later in the day, but the lid was slightly aslant and the eastern horizon was a fierce red gold . Like Mary Oliver observes in "Why I Wake Up Early", it does make for a positive start to the day.**

This morning meanwhile, we were half an hour later, the sky was lighter with the clouds higher and more scattered. Mild air and a half-moon poised even higher overhead, the birds a little more active than the other day and a single bright yellow flower hanging precariously on the gorse. 

**Why I Wake Up Early

Hello, sun in my face

Hello, you who make the morning

and spread it over the fields                   

and into the face of the tulips

and the nodding morning glories,

and into the windows of, even, the

miserable and the crotchety –

                                                                               

best preacher that ever was,

dear star, that just happens

to be where you are in the universe

to keep us from ever-darkness

to ease us with warm touching,

to hold us in the great hands of light –

good morning, good morning, good morning.

 

Watch, now, how I start the day

in happiness, in kindness.

                      Mary Oliver