Spring Beginnings

I know spring is coming to W&M for a number of reasons other than the gorgeous weather we’ve been having and the fact that spring break was two weeks ago. Let’s look at my previous week here, for example. In that time, I have:

• Gone to get cider with friends in Colonial Williamsburg…on 5 separate occasions.
• Gone to the beach, twice.
• Sat in the Sunken Gardens on a Friday afternoon with friends…for 5 hours straight.
• Had a professor suggest we go outside and play tag (morphological language patterns-based tag, of course, so that we’re still ‘learning’).
• Taken a class of 40 fifth graders on a tour of our beautifully blooming campus.
• Gone to get shave ice.
• Sat on the terrace at night.
• Sat on the terrace during the day.
• Eaten multiple cheese shop meals out on their patio.
• Been excessively happy.

So I thought I’d take this time to share one of my favorite poems with you all. It’s from ee cummings and now that midterms have died down and spring has sprung, I can’t help but think of how appropriate it is for W&M:

O sweet spontaneous [ee cummings]

O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting

fingers of
purient philosophers pinched
and
poked

thee
, has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy

beauty, how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and

buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
(but
true

to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover

thou answerest

them only with

spring)

So enjoy Spring, everybody.
I know I will be.

BF