Wednesday, March 18, 2009

It's All Right


Is it the purple? Is it the birds? Is it the dogwoods so purely white like clouds drifted to earth to settle for awhile on their trees? Is it the gaudy playful joy that nature is displaying with this ridiculous excess of beauty, all this tender green growth, all this blossoming of white and light which has pulled me out of that eternal night, that ubiquitous fright?
I feel something tender and green in my heart. It is pushing new leaves up towards the sun, it chokes my throat with a taste so sweet; this feels like the ash magnolia's velvet new growth, that delicate, that strong.
I think the world waits during winter, no tree or bush quite sure what it is until suddenly the earth turns, the dirt warms, the plant remembers and births itself again, each unto it's own, coming unto itself with joyful, purposeful abandon.
Maybe.
Or maybe it's like a cover has been finally pushed aside, letting in the daylight which streams through the lace curtains over my head.
I'm not sure. All I know is this:
Little darlin', it's been a long cold lonely winter.
Little darlin', it seems like years since I've been here.
Here comes the sun.
Here comes the sun.
And I say
It's all right.
It's all right.

8 comments:

  1. By far, that's my favorite Beatles song. Still running your lines? Or are you learning the ones for the new show?

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  2. That is such a great song. Most appropriate for this time of year. I always thought George was the sexiest of the Beatles.

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  3. I really glad that the sun in coming out for us all to bud with. It's been good to us so far.

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  4. Jon- Jan and Jack specifically told me not to learn my new lines until after our final performance of Later Life. It's like they know me or something....
    Ha! How's it going? We miss you.

    Lady Lemon- George was mighty sexy in that quiet, thin way. His music has saved my life on more than one occasion.

    HoneyLuna- You are right, my darling!

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  5. "...births itself again."

    Amen, sister. I think I'm doing that myself this week. It's painful this time around, put part of living this here life.

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  6. rather... "but" part of. My fingers can't find the right letters today. Baby didn't sleep good last night. Colds all around.

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  7. So, I caught Ringo and a very young Phil Collins on the drums, but what I'm curious about is the cat with the fro and the shades playing guitar beside George... Anyone know who the hell that is? My best guess was Robert Plant with a bad haircut and no product... but that hardly seems likely.

    Great post. And of course, I dug the song.

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  8. i'm so glad you are feeling Spring in your blood...i'm stirring...

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