[Unedited] Michael McCarthy with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Flowers of the Trees in English
English has a special word for the flowers of trees and most languages don't. Enmady: I think because i've been reading you at this time, i have been just that much more alert to the bird song that comes right at this time of year. You say somewhere, for some years i have thought of spring bird song as blossom in sound. A good thing. Well, i mean, when i first sawh that, i mean, we, my family and i, a spent easter on the isle of sky in scotland. And am am e, we, we've just come back. But it's quite, it's quite a harsh beauty....
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