Spring Wins…

During these frightening days, writers lean back on Nature the way a young girl

might slide gently down to rest on a mossy mound in the woods. Our minds reach

for analogies but there is nothing in the human-created world to answer our need. 

Instead we must turn to Nature. We have the facts, but so many of them are troubling,

so very troubling. Mystery is what we hunger for and Nature will always remain the

greatest mystery ever told, no matter how many illustrated notebooks turn up in the

bows of the HMS Beagles or how many times we bring an all-powerful Creator into the

picture frame. Nature defies all attempts to account for it.