February Winds

On a beautiful gusty day in February…

 When you don’t have a kite…

 but you do have a jump rope,

missing handles,

from the bottom of the toy box…

 and you have a plastic bag…

you go outside play with the wind.  

The Wind

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I saw you toss the kites on high

And blow the birds about the sky;

And all around I heard you pass,

Like ladies' skirts across the grass--

                  O wind, a-blowing all day long,

                  O wind, that sings so loud a song!

I saw the different things you did,

But always you yourself you hid.

I felt you push, I heard you call,

I could not see yourself at all--

                 O wind, a-blowing all day long,

                 O wind, that sings so loud a song!

O you that are so strong and cold,

O blower, are you young or old?

Are you a beast of field and tree,

Or just a stronger child than me?

                O wind, a-blowing all day long,

                O wind, that sings so loud a song!

"He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind,

 and who reveals his thoughts to mankind, who turns dawn to darkness,

and treads on the heights of the earth --

the LORD God Almighty is his name."

Amos 4:13