The Monday in Holy Week. And my Mom, who would have been 95 today, loved ee cummings...

                                                                    Psalm 51:11

           Create

           in me 

          a clean

          heart, 

          O God, 

         and renew a right spirit within me.  

                i thank You God, for most this amazing

day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

and a true blue dream of sky; and for everything

which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,

and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth 

day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay 

great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing

breathing any-lifted from the no

of all nothing-human merely being

doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and 

 now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

e.e. cummings 

There is s a stunning choral version of this on YourTube... look for the version sung by Mira Coast High School last year.