Singing with Deer

photograph by Lisa Peters     Here’s a lovely piece by Patricia Monaghan: I especially like to walk among the sleeping trees in the half-lit silence of winter dawns. The trail I follow winds and twists, new patches of mixed woodland appearing at every turn. That morning, I reached a point where the path turns

I heard a bird sing

    “I heard a bird sing In the dark of December A magical thing And sweet to remember. ‘We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,’ I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.” –   Oliver Herford, I Heard a Bird Sing