March 5, 2026

Gorgeous spring day. Shopped at Israel’s and spent the morning planting what I’d bought. Sat on the pond bench and watched a song sparrow and a robin bathing on different rocks. I can feel the heat of sunburn on my head and neck. It is the most terrible world, and yet the song sparrows come down and bathe on a flat rock. Contested in the dark with the Lord the Betrayer, who remains the Betrayer, and yet the song sparrows come to bathe on the flat rocks.