"a flash of Bluebird iridescence"

It's raining and raining and raining where I live. Everywhere that water can find to pool or flow is full. The rivers are swollen. Levees have been breached and sections of highway have collapsed or been overrun by landslides. Homes and neighborhoods are flooded. And still it rains and rains and rains. This morning in our living room, I read aloud the opening paragraph of Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World. Her writing is so beautiful and so calming that I almost find it painful to read sometimes. It's like my nervous system craves...