Day: March 17, 2022

I confess it’s been hard for me to escape from the world lately, whether via reading, my own writing, work, or just the mundanity of everyday life (hard, for instance, to read social media from people in my town upset about lacking power for two days after a recent windstorm, given events elsewhere). So when it came time to come up with another St. Patrick’s Day post and prompt, the usual lightheartedness (Pubs!  Shamrocks! Snakes!) of prior posts felt a little off-tune.

One of my earlier posts noted how I often think of one of my favorite poets around this time — William Butler Yeats — and went on to springboard off of  “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”

But peace has not been “dropping slow” of late,