{"id":1270,"date":"2015-03-20T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:35","slug":"march-20-the-first-day-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/03\/20\/march-20-the-first-day-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"March 20 &#8212;  The First Day of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Friday, \u00a0March 20 \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0\u201clanded backwards!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Spring does not promise an endless parade of sun drenched 72\u00ba days with puff-ball clouds and light breezes to stir new flowers. \u00a0A good thing it doesn\u2019t promise all of that because spring never delivers an endless repetition of anything.\u00a0 Some days stir the soul with playful, kind beauty.\u00a0 It renews our spirits.\u00a0 Some days deliver soft rain that brings in its wake deeper green colors. \u00a0Some days bluster and make us glad we brought change of weather jackets, or we shiver and scuttle across the outside if we didn\u2019t. \u00a0Look out for mud too.<\/p>\n<p>Put all the varieties of spring together? \u00a0How to name them as a season? \u00a0My favorite spring poem, from William Carlos Williams, suggests that spring catches our attention and renews our courage.<\/p>\n<p>Best to read the poem out loud, with a pause.<\/p>\n<p>Have a blest Spring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post \u00a0\u201cI saw the two starlings coming in . . . &#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Manoeuvre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I saw the two starlings\u2028 coming in toward the wires.<br \/>\nBut at the last,\u2028 just before alighting, they<br \/>\nturned in the air together\u2028and landed backwards!<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s what got me \u2013 to \u2028face into the wind&#8217;s teeth.<\/p>\n<p>William Carlos Williams<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/William-Carlos-Williams.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-453 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2014\/04\/William-Carlos-Williams-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"William Carlos Williams\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, \u00a0March 20 \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0\u201clanded backwards!&#8221; Spring does not promise an endless parade of sun drenched 72\u00ba days with puff-ball clouds and light breezes to stir new flowers. \u00a0A good thing it doesn\u2019t promise all of that because spring never &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2015\/03\/20\/march-20-the-first-day-of-spring\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}