Poetry sticks in my head. Music lines, too. Definitely movie lines. But somehow it is those lines of poetry which snake their way through my head which most often seem to surface when I am feeling a thought more than thinking it.
I have so been longing for the sunshine. I crave it. It is amazing how dependent I am on those wonderful endorphines which my body releases when I soak in the sun and when I am able to excercise, and today I was granted both. Stephen took Sam, Sydney and Joseph on a church hike. After a morning visit with Mako, I took Ethan and Noah to Walmart to pick up a few things and we decided to buy some goldfish for my little pond out back. Noah picked out the smallest goldfish they had. "I want that 'ittle tiny baby fish!" After introducing the fish to their knew home, we spent the afternoon just sitting in the sun and hanging out together. This evening after supper I got to do a three mile walk, too, which always makes me feel sooo much better.
Anyway, as I sat and soaked in the sun today, I kept having the lines of a poem by William Wordsworth run through my head in bits and pieces. . .
"All things that love the sun are out of doors. . ." It is a wonderful poem that describes today so perfectly. The beauty of a sunshine filled day, particularly when it follows days of wind and rain. What a gift poetry is. There's not room to post it all, but I'll whet your appetite:
Resolution And Independence
by William Wordsworth
There was a roaring in the wind all night;
The rain came heavily and fell in floods;
But now the sun is rising calm and bright;
The birds are singing in the distant woods;
Over his own sweet voice the Stock - dove broods;
The Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters;
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters.
All things that love the sun are out of doors;
The sky rejoices in the morning`s birth;
The grass is bright with rain - drops; - on the moors
The hare is running races in her mirth;
And with her feet she from the plashy earth
Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun,
Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.