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A Very Happy Day
Today is special
While most everyone else seems focused on panic, I am trying to focus on the fantastic, wonderful, delightful news that today has to offer. That’s right, today is the first day of Spring.
It is the day we leave one six-month cycle and enter a new six-month cycle. At least for us Northern Hemispherians we are leaving the dark, cold, gray, and gloomy half of the year and entering the light, warm, sunny, and cheerful half of the year.
Hallelujah!
How can anyone not be happy about that? Today is a day to rejoice. (To make joyful again.)
Of course right now I am looking out my office window and I can barely see the house across the street because the fog is so thick. The forecast calls for fog, rain, a chance of tornados and this evening the rain is supposed to turn into snow with possible accumulations of one to three inches.
It’s Spring, damnit! I have returned my snow shovel to the back of the closet and I vehemently refuse to take it back out. Sometimes you just have to take a stand.
Yesterday I took a long walk in a light rain. I noticed that the tulips and daffodils and grape hyacinths have poked up out of the earth. The tallest ones are about an inch tall. Soon they will be blooming and then there will be even more reason to rejoice.
