Fire in the Sky

The sky has been doused and fizzled-out for a while, so it was quite refreshing this morning to wake up and have it reignited and ablaze so brilliantly. I had to take a moment to soak it in. I stood in my pajamas looking out of the open kitchen door. Outdoors it was frigid, the trees were bare, and the ground was saturated and soggy. But the sun nor the sky was aware of this. The sun, shining like a well polished fire opal alongside the sparkling aquamarine sky, was telling me it was a beautiful morning no matter how hard the marshy land below my feet was trying to tell me otherwise. Tree tops were glad to tickle the sky once again and the birds were singing songs about this lovely day. I bet they won’t look down once except perhaps to perch on the thawing finger tip of a redwood tree. It is going to be a great day.



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