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Yesterday, March 20th, marked the beginning of Spring. Spring has always been a season of great hope and new beginnings, the birth of baby animals, the budding of the trees, the flowers blooming, the song birds returning from their winter homes. The promise of more light has been fulfilled and the daylight begins to stretch later into the evening.
The cycles of the earth, including the changing of the seasons, are comforting because just as the sunset is followed by the sunrise and the waxing moon follows the new moon, winter is followed by spring.
When the seasons change, we should take time to reflect. The movement from March 19th to March 20th is not significant unto itself, just as the date of your birthday or January 1st is not meaningful except as a marker to denote a transition.
But what the marker does is give us a point in time when we can allow ourselves to stop and reflect on where we are: whether we should change our direction or continue the same way we have been heading.
Only one thing is certain: we cannot back up. What is past is past ... we can hide from it or we can learn from it but we can't change it.
So today, this second day of spring, a season rife with the promise of new beginnings and hope, will you look forward or backward?
I have an idea.
Approach Spring with a spring in your step, a song in your heart and an attitude that says: yesterday is over, today is great, and tomorrow will be even better.
As always, feel free to jibber your jabber ...