Sunday, June 12, 2005
Spring, Summer
In the midst of a worse heat wave than we had in Jersey all of last summer. But this is more typical spring-becomes-summer June weather. Many people seem to expect a gradual transition between the seasons, & it happens, if one measures by tree time. But there is spring, & then there is summer, as some zen poet noted. We had spring & now it is summer. When the heat breaks later this week, it may briefly feel like spring, but it will still be summer.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
