EDITORIAL
Let
Spring Burst Out!
Michael
A. King
The word has recently been
circulating that Westerners are less and
less connected to nature. Instead we
relate to the world through electronic
media. What a tragedy.
Yet all is not lost.
Spring is here, a season during which
even obsessed technophiles may manage a
peek at nature’s beauties. And I
challenge any reader to take in the first
three articles in this issue and not feel
blessed by springtime images of lambing,
jars of strawberry love, and digging
(even peeing!) in a garden’s dirt.
I don’t want to
impose a spring theme too rigidly on the
rest of the materials in this issue of DreamSeeker
Magazine. But maybe all or most of
these writings connect to spring if we
think of it as a season of primal forces,
life bursting forth, energies seeking to
bear fruit.
Kent Davis Sensenig
reminds us of that primal force which was
the Beatles. Love or hate them in their
springtime, how they did blossom! Even as
Regina Wenger’s story is set in
summer (and in time for Father’s
Day), its report on a budding
relationship with her dad feels
springlike.
The tone shifts with
Deborah Good and David Greiser—now
we’re pondering the beauties and
risks of sex and how they connect with
sex education or unplanned pregnancy. But
if dangers and appropriate channels for
sexual expression need to be mentored
into us, what a springlike drive sex at
its best is.
And might it just
possibly be the impish urge of spring
blooming in her spirit that prompts Noël
R. King to tell us so casually of the
encounter with the little face in the
UFO?
Then anger, as in Mark
Wenger’s column. Is anger
springlike? I’m reminded of the
spring I drove through the Rockies on
Interstate 70, stopped at a rest area,
and found I couldn’t call my parents
on my cell phone because the spring snow
melts had made the Colorado River roar
too loud. What do we do with a force like
that? Wenger asks.
Meanwhile Renee Gehman
draws spiritual lessons from a child in
springtime. And this issue’s poets
touch spring in seeking to touch the very
heartbeat of life. Maybe even Daniel
Hertzler, writing about peace and
security, connects with spring. Because
how often are the crops of spring
trampled when war and violence rage over
them.
So let spring burst
out!
—Michael A. King
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