Primavera Normal … Incluindo na Época da Pandemia de Coronavirus

Oh sim!  Com certeza.1

Spring, a primavera, is hands down my favorite normal seasonal experience each and every year.

 

For sixty-two years in south and central Texas

Spring has been sprinklings and blankets of beautiful petite copos de vinho, wine cups,

Prickly poppies, phlox, Indian paintbrush, bluebonnets, evening primrose and so much more natural beleza.

And flavorful and scrumptious dewberries and tasty crunchy, tart nopalitos.

 

During the ten lovely years in north Florida and south Georgia

A primavera was a prevalence of amazingly colorful flores

Azaleas, dogwoods, redbuds, irises and honeysuckles.

 

In the two years north of the Tropic of Capricorn in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

Spring wasn’t really of note.

It was spring year-long with the ever prevalent flaming árvore, flor de flamboyant; buganvília, generally called primavera!, and orquídeas.

 

For perhaps 30 years of my youth, spring was also track and field including all-comers community meets in Tifton, Georgia

And the 15-miler in the Okefenokee

And numerous five- and ten-K races

Of wonderful spring warmth, open air, and camaraderie.

 

In this time of COVID-19 we wonder about a “return” to normal.

An urban dictionary definition emphasizes that normal is about as concrete as love.

 

And I will always love spring, in a pandemic or otherwise,

Normal ou “fora do normal.”2

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1Portuguese is naturally poetic.

2  In doing a bit of researching for developing this poem, I came across this URL– Campo Grande is the first Brazilian city to calculate its Ecological Footprint | WWF Brasil –and made these comments on FaceBook:

Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul Brasil is where we lived for two years in the 1980s.

………….

The number of Earths needed for the consumption levels of the U.S. is five (5)!!!

As points of reference, from fairly recent calculations per capita (in acres) of WWF:

World’s biocapacity-4.4

 

Ecological footprints:

U.S-20.3

Poland-11.0

Brasil-7.7

Mexico-7.0

China-5.2

Honduras-4.2

Nicaragua-3.4

India-2.9

 

pbm

( 7 S’S / VV->^^ )

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