See the Darkness Yielding

Got car back from garage today and the sun was shining, so decided to set off to discover more of the Lower Alentejo - so much beauty, hard to choose a photo, but settled on this one of the jetties on stilts, built for the fishermen to cope with the tides, at Carrasqueira, on the Sado estuary. We walked along them for ages - no signs to tell you which ones are rotten - which some are - love the lack of "health-and-safety"... Absolutely thick with birds - apparently, you can see as many as 100 species in a day.

The poem for today - a sombre one by Robert Frost, didn't seem to do justice to a gently gorgeous day, so you have instead some lines from the album Old Ideas, by Leonard Cohen, that we listened to as we drove along in the dark to Grândola, (where we're spending the night), "Come Healing":

O gather up the brokenness
And bring it to me now
The fragrance of those promises
You never dared to vow
...
Behold the gates of mercy
In arbitrary space
And none of us deserving
The cruelty or the grace
...
O see the darkness yielding
That tore the light apart
Come healing of the reason
Come healing of the heart
...

If you've never listened to it, find a quiet moment and listen - it is such a healing song and moves me deeply.