the long year starts now,
deep green, hot days, first chilling frost,
then we’re full circle
remembering every day
that each and every day
is a start and a finish
and every point in between
perfect moments all
"Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time."- REW, Self-Reliance
(from the Spring @ The Estate series)