May: Things in Nature Merely Grow
Things in Nature Merely Grow, this is the book by YiYun Li(李翊云) that won The 2026 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Memoir. I borrow the title for this log, it tells the feeling 1.
... the flowers are never tasked to be the heralds for brightness and optimism. Things in nature merely grow. There is no suicidal or angry rose, there is no depressed or rebellious lily. Plants have but one goal: to live.
Trees grow when they can, and go into dormancy if needed. They live until they die -- and either they die as destined by nature or are cut down by other elements in nature.
Much of what one does in life is to hold a place for something and to uphold a space for someone.
May was to live when I can, it was at a place-holding stage, waiting for another clearer cycle of the moon phase to complete.
to describe my state of dealing with the allergy season in new york city for a third year in a roll...↩