On Full & Empty Minds & Hearts

 

Since my mind hops around a lot, all six concerns mentioned here and more are rolling around upstairs. Only my thoughts involve a few more exclamation points.  Plus I consider Musk's control of Twitter to be a positive change running alongside whatever else is flying out of mouths of White House leadership. What briefly entertained me today, however, more than any of the other cartoons found, was Babylon Bee's list of the 43 Things Besides Covid the Democrats Are Requesting Amnesty On. Brandon and his sidekick have not yet made the list but Hillary is #43.

Even with all else going on, my mind came to rest this 60+ degree afternoon as I sat outdoors in the sunshine, listening to the oak leaves as they gently swirled down around me to land with an audible tick, tick, tick on the forest floor.   A rain of leaves, with the trees doing what they done for thousands of years they finish up one season and prepare for the next.  What I experienced, the peace I felt as I sat there reminded me one of the short Frost poems I memorized years ago:

Dust of Snow BY ROBERT FROST

The way a crow

Shook down on me

The dust of snow

From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart

A change of mood

And saved some part

Of a day I had rued.