Photo by Norm Smyth. We’re bracing for another round of wintery weather. (Time to cover the garden again!) I tell myself it’s supposed to be cold, because that is winter’s job. But after so many years in Florida and California, these 20-degrees-and-lower temperatures are surprising. I received this photo from my friends Norm & Shirley in California and I’m reminded of the magic of the monarch migration. How nature has its rhythms and cycles, and poetry is everywhere if we just stop to take a look. This poem by W.S. Merwin reminds me to stop fluttering about and be present, …

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