Miranda Sparkle

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

This stanza from a poem by e e cummings fills me with excitement and joy. It reminds me of all the good and beauty and potential in the world, the wonders just waiting to be discovered if we look for them.

Somewhere inside, I believe in magic and enchantment lying just beneath the surface of what might be considered ordinary things: a gnarled root; a rushing stream; the still rooms of an abandoned house; a rusty, flattened bottle cap; a jar of silver glitter from my childhood.

And when I read this verse, greenly spirits leap within me and say YES!