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Dear May,

May 1, 2020 By Talya Tate Boerner 3 Comments

Dear May

Dear May,

I breathe in your pea green freshness. I crawl on my hands and knees looking for every tiny change in each plant pushing through the soil.

May is for feeling alive. (This May, in particular, we need you.)

I think of May Day and may poles and while I don’t know the history behind it all, I like the idea. Girls dressed in floaty, flouncy dresses wrapping Easter-colored ribbons around and around and under and over. Hair woven with flowers—clover and daisies and baby’s breath.

May Pole

Everything is good and light on this May Day morning. The sky is new, silvery blue and full of easy.

May feeds me.
Fuels me.
Fills with now with words to use later.

Happy May, friends!

Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

Musical Pairing:
The Beatles – I Want to Hold Your Hand

Filed Under: Life, Nature & Seasons, Simple Pleasures Tagged With: Letters to July, May, spring, spring gardening

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Comments

  1. Georgeanne @ Southern Fried Soprano says

    May 2, 2016 at 8:49 am

    Ah, May… a gardener’s delight!

    Reply
  2. Dorothy Johnson says

    May 3, 2016 at 8:58 am

    Those flowers are gorgeous. I remember winding the May Pole when I was in the 6th grade. We weren’t sure why we were doing it, but you were right about the floaty dresses.

    Reply
  3. Beverly Howard says

    May 1, 2020 at 12:10 pm

    When my mother, Irene Johnson, was in elementary school in Keiser, they performed a Maypole dance every year. Odd that the tradition was there in the 1930s.

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