Today is St David's Day, Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! It seems appropriate to post a poem from one of my favourite, although somewhat difficult, Welsh poets: R S Thomas's The Bright Field.
With all that is happening in the world at the moment it seems more important than ever to focus on the small and simple things:
I have seen the sun break through
to illuminate a small field
for a while, and gone my way
and forgotten it. But that was the
pearl of great price, the one field that had
treasure in it. I realise now
that I must give all that I have
to possess it. Life is not hurrying
on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.