Daily Reflections

Tomorrow will be our sixth Sunday in the ZOOM church mode. Who would have thought? At first we said, well, surely we’ll be back in church by Easter weekend. You can’t have Good Friday on ZOOM, can you? Or Easter Sunday without trumpets? And yet we did.

A long slow spring has much to recommend it. Even when we are yearning for warmer weather, it’s a pleasure to watch the spring ephemerals linger. Scylla and daffodils and forsythia seem to relish the chilly air, and even if it means you have to wait a little longer for the tulips, this pause before the full onset of the new season has its own charms. The sunshine has a special brilliance when there are no leaves to soak up the light, and a grey sky is somehow more lustrous in a slow spring.