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Jewish World Review April 28, 2006 / 30 Nissan, 5766 Cut the racket — later By Lori Borgman http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Edna St. Vincent Millay must have been sitting in this very chair when she wrote, "April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers." There's babbling all right, and at present it is coming from a brigade of chickadees and a kamikaze blue jay circling the feeder. Just when they reach a truce, a couple of show-off finches begin making a racket, flashing their canary yellow chests, taunting me to leave the computer and come outside. "What beauty is there in a, d, s, f, return and delete?" they say. "The computer will wait, but Spring is quickly passing." Easy for a bird to say, a bird doesn't have to write a column. A thousand shades of green are jostling with one another outside the window as well — emerald, lime, and Kelly — each squeezed fresh from the painter's tube, each clamoring for adulation. It's enough to drive a person to distraction. I am about to tell the greens so, and remind them that they aren't the only colors on the palette, when the Annabelle hydrangeas flutter in the breeze. The Annabelles are squatting low to the ground doing that shy, coy thing they always do this time of year. Looks can be so deceiving. Behind closed shoots, the Annabelles are racing about, forcing millions of buds to the tips of stems that will explode at any moment in mass profusions of dainty blooms. But who has time to wait for mass profusions? I resolve to return to my work when the lilac bush cranes its head and leans into view. Of all the shrubs and bushes in the heartland, the wood on a lilac is the most gnarled and arthritic of all. Who can say no to joints that look so pained? Long curls of lavender poke their heads through clusters of heart-shaped leaves. Raindrops from an early morning sprinkle plunge from the sweetly scented lilacs into the lilies of the valley waving below. Only yesterday, the lilies sounded the trumpets, unfurled their leaves and debuted their dainty frilly bells now peering through the foliage. The e-mail in-box chimes again. I resolve to focus on the task at hand, when a robin begins strutting back and forth on a railroad tie bordering a red and yellow tulips. Rich soil, long blades of grass and the cool of morning converge for the robin, and voila! the perfect worm. "What did that worm ever do to you?" I am about to shout, when the clematis tumbles off the trellis. You don't shout around clematis, they are regal sorts, awash in royal purple with majestic streaks of white. Pansies resting in a small pot curtsy before the clematis then turn their bashful charm my way. "No, I don't need to smell dirt on my hands," I snap. "Do you think I was born yesterday?" I know how that ruse goes. You plant a few pansies, a geranium here, a begonia there and soon you have rich black earth up to your elbows and dreams of planting three flats by noon. "Oldest trick in the book," I whisper to the pansies. Who can get any work done with all this beauty and babbling and Spring constantly knocking about? What I need to do is close the window, drop the blinds and shut the door. And I will do exactly that. Tomorrow. Or the next day. Or the day after that. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. JWR contributor Lori Borgman is the author of , most recently, "Pass the Faith, Please" (Click HERE to purchase. Sales help fund JWR.) and I Was a Better Mother Before I Had Kids To comment, please click here. To visit her website click here. ARCHIVES © 2006, Lori Borgman

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