Predictability is essential to spiritual stability. For most of our history we have been able, despite the execrable behaviors of some, to base our collective lives on certain assumptions. I write here of birds and spring chores because they are part and parcel of what have always been nature’s patterns. We depend on some certainties if we are to function with any degree of stability.…
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Hal Borland
One of my favorite writers, Hal Borland, often referred to what he described as nature’s eternal patterns. The many joys we experience up here on the hill are rooted in the promise of those patterns. Season after season there are certain things that we can count on. There inevitably will be slight alterations in the annual performance but, by and large, we can anticipate these annual encores.…
