{"id":14302,"date":"2015-05-23T09:37:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=14302"},"modified":"2015-05-23T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T14:24:29","slug":"seeing-the-trillium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2015\/05\/23\/seeing-the-trillium\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the trillium"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Today's<\/a>

Today’s iconic Photo of the Day: Antoni Zaborek Wildlife Photography<\/a>\u200e<\/p><\/div>\n

Overuse wears a word down, and one of the most eroded words in English now is “icon.” From icon’s original meaning as a representation of sacred awe, it has descended to mean merely popular and ubiquitous. Might as well say “cool.”<\/p>\n

\"Icon:<\/a>

Icon: trillium. Noun Project<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

But we do have experiences that are genuinely iconic–seeing the heron in flight, the trillium in bloom.<\/p>\n

Whenever I see a trillium, I want to stop and breathe, to do nothing but be in the presence. And then I want to write a poem; I want to consider perfection, purity, evanescence. A trillium is a thing seen that points to things unseen.<\/p>\n

I haven’t written that poem yet, and today is not that day. But I’m not the only one who is moved in this way by the too-brief adornment of spring in the North Country.<\/p>\n

Patricia Cambell Carlson wrote:<\/p>\n

All along this hill: trillium
\nwhite as Christ’s robes when
\nHe ascended into heaven. . .<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Masiela Lusha called trillium:<\/p>\n

The muse of three ivory words
\nTied to one gravity of reason\u2014
\nTied to the gold pollen
\nOf birth and rebirth and rebirth.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Peter Pereira writes of their fading:<\/p>\n

the trillium, its three-petaled white flowers
\nexquisitely tinged with purple as they fall.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Sydney Lea recalls:<\/p>\n

. . . a late trillium
\nglowed by a ledge like a lotus.
\nRight along the rain kept pounding.
\nI was mindful of all these things<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s the last thing you saw that stopped you in your tracks? Share a mindful moment in a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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