Winter:
Morning light;
Melting frost
Drips from the trees.
Hiberno:
Lumine matinal;
Gelo disgelante
Ab le arbores gutta.
How quickly time passes! Already more than half of January is gone, and in less than two weeks we shall be at Candlemas — Imbolc — again. In the Old Calendar that is the traditional beginning of spring, in spite of cold, of frost or snow.
This morning everything was white with frost — bare trees, grass, roads. And then came the light of morning, revealing the transience that lies behind everything in our lives.
David
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