We want to include one offering for no other reason than to amuse. Life is complicated and sometimes very intense, the Whether Report offers a slightly off-beat perspective designed to provide reprieve from the weather of life.
So, we’ve somehow slid right past the long hot days of summer into the improbably unpredictable days of Autumn.. The lawn looks a little more worn out than the half-empty bottles of sunscreen abandoned on the floor of the car. As we careen into winter, let’s take one last glance over our shoulder at the season that was.
The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean–
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down–
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?