Saturday, February 9, 2019

Winter's Dove

I saw the dove through my window again today – a very healthy silver-white dove perched in the tree right outside the room where I work and write. Later it rained, and he or she was joined by a mate. I’m a little surprised to see them. The tree has just been trimmed, had branches sawed down to avoid telephone wires, and it was looking rather stark--as a tree in winter tends to look, even in these warmer climes. Perhaps the doves have been stopping there all the time, and now that the tree is barer I’m able to see them.
 

It’s as if nature is whispering to me: prune the branches, clear the clutter, release the unnecessary. Then the creative fervor within you will alight on the lean branch of this restive season, present and plump in the rain.

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