Rain and Lingering Shadows: Meditation from a Spring Morning

For me, rainy mornings bring a longing for creativity and restoration—an inclination to read or write, to listen to music, to sit and reflect. Something about early rain activates my daydreams, awakens my imagination.

I welcome the sense of smallness days like this bring. Dark, overcast mornings make me feel settled, burrowed. It may be that such days re…