Published:
6:00 AM January 21, 2022
Christmas and New Year are past; lengthening days bring the promise of spring; life in the wild continues, the mild weather has encouraged many plants to bud and flower early.
After so much preoccupation with the virus, vaccines and infection statistics, it is good to look outwards.
It is difficult to adjust from the joy and generosity of Christmas to landlords’ greed and selfishness turning our housing crisis into a disaster, problems with child care and elderly care, special needs education and so very many other issues to be tackled.
Meanwhile, nature continues all around us unaffected, which offers a calmer outlook.
We live in uncertain times; the virus, Novak Djokovic and parties at No 10 dominate our news for now, but there are many events worldwide that give great cause for concern, but unseen until they become acute enough for the news to report them; meanwhile we blunder on in our own field of vision; let’s look outward.
A weed is a happy plant, it grows where it chooses; it flowers, giving joy to all around as God…
