A Very Happy Day

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ing, 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.</p><p id="6fe8">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.</p><p id="a572">And the geese are doing a lot of flying, exercising and building up their muscles for the upcoming migration northward. Is there any more joyful sound than the honking of hundreds of geese flying overhead?</p><p id="95eb">Or the honking of children?</p><p id="7d83">With school closed, my granddaughters are sequestered at home all day and according to their mother they are going cuckoo bananas. So I’ll be going over there later this morning to help them exercise their noggin muscles.</p><p id="81f5">The last time I was over there I noticed that the lead was broken out of half of their colored pencils. They told me that they had lost their pencil sharpener. So today I am bringing a new pencil sharpener for each of them. (I’d be an idiot to only bring one.) One pencil sharpener is purple and the other is blue. I’m just

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going to toss them on the table and let them choose what color they want — and hope a fight does not ensue.</p><p id="8a78">Girls.</p><p id="4f62">I also plan on getting them out of the house by taking them for a walk. It’s officially Spring, after all. Perhaps I should bring an umbrella.</p><p id="7ff5">I challenge everyone to engage with nature in some way on this first day of the happy half of the year. It’s important.</p><p id="5dc8"><i>Copyright by <a href="https://whitefeather.substack.com/"><b>White Feather</b></a>. All Rights Reserved.</i> <a href="https://readmedium.com/white-feather-archive-index-c95167f7dbaf"><b>White Feather Archive Index</b></a></p><p id="f833"><i>Speaking of children…</i></p><div id="2abe" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/sidewalk-art-f5f1b1dbbdfb"> <div> <div> <h2>Sidewalk Art</h2> <div><h3>Sociological neighborhood dynamics</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*m1KMw3QiP36oUPUX-1Q44g.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

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.

And the geese are doing a lot of flying, exercising and building up their muscles for the upcoming migration northward. Is there any more joyful sound than the honking of hundreds of geese flying overhead?

Or the honking of children?

With school closed, my granddaughters are sequestered at home all day and according to their mother they are going cuckoo bananas. So I’ll be going over there later this morning to help them exercise their noggin muscles.

The last time I was over there I noticed that the lead was broken out of half of their colored pencils. They told me that they had lost their pencil sharpener. So today I am bringing a new pencil sharpener for each of them. (I’d be an idiot to only bring one.) One pencil sharpener is purple and the other is blue. I’m just going to toss them on the table and let them choose what color they want — and hope a fight does not ensue.

Girls.

I also plan on getting them out of the house by taking them for a walk. It’s officially Spring, after all. Perhaps I should bring an umbrella.

I challenge everyone to engage with nature in some way on this first day of the happy half of the year. It’s important.

Speaking of children…