Spring, A Reminder of Just How Beautiful Change Tastes
Is it the vividness of bright green leaves or the blush on trees just before they bud, or perhaps the star bursts of color pushing upwards through the brown left-over detritus of winter that sparks the eye and fills the heart with happiness and yes, even glee after months of monotone landscape? Spring at last, Spring at last! My eyes and heart thirsty for color, for life, for change drink deeply of this richness, drink of it deeply into my Soul, into my Bones, and into my Being. I flit from flower to flower sipping sweet nectar from Daffodils, plunge my nose into Lilacs like a Bee, and hover above the Tulips as a Hummingbird surveying all of her delicious choices. The Spring landscape, a smorgasbord laid abundantly before us, beckons us to delight in the beauty of change, of new possibilities, of a newness of form. Rise up out of your winter den and cast off your layers, shed your old skin, stretch your limbs, rub the sleepy seeds from your eyes and plant them all in the f