Spring
With March now officially beginning, it is now time for thoughts to turn towards the next season, Spring. Our nights are getting shorter, and the days are getting longer. We are starting to see the brilliant colors of the surrounding vegetation and smell the scents of life revived. All around, we feel hope and a mixture of youthful beginnings as we begin to shed a few layers. Spring is symbolic of all things renewing themselves for the next generation.
It sounds like a poetic way of describing the return of HOT and having everything covered in pollen. Spring does mean a renewal of sorts during the month of March, but it also has other connotations. Spring Training is beginning for one sport, and soon another will follow. Then there is Spring Cleaning, where we shake off the dust from the previous few months and chuck out stuff that we are no longer enamored with. Spring Planting means we go outside and root out the plants that we were not successful in keeping alive for one year and replace them with new ones that will probably meet the same fate.
Spring Festivals appear here and there where we can celebrate the season through purchasing trinkets, drinking, and continue a tradition of dancing around a pole. Some partake in a ritual known as Spring Break and, depending on the age group, involve themselves in a sundry amount of activities with different levels of regrets. We Spring Forward one hour in a timely tradition that no longer has any effect on our daily lives except to hear people complain on that Monday that they were tired because they had "lost" an hour or forgot all Sunday to fix their clocks.
I took a few minutes to find words that are associated with the concept of Spring and found 100 of them. All of them were warm and fuzzy words that we would use to describe a feeling, a person, or a puppy. To be honest, this one particular season is not on the top of my list. Actually, Spring is at the bottom of it, the bottom 25%. It is not all of the bright colors or celebrations that made this season in last in place.
I hate sneezing all of the damn time.
It sounds like a poetic way of describing the return of HOT and having everything covered in pollen. Spring does mean a renewal of sorts during the month of March, but it also has other connotations. Spring Training is beginning for one sport, and soon another will follow. Then there is Spring Cleaning, where we shake off the dust from the previous few months and chuck out stuff that we are no longer enamored with. Spring Planting means we go outside and root out the plants that we were not successful in keeping alive for one year and replace them with new ones that will probably meet the same fate.
Spring Festivals appear here and there where we can celebrate the season through purchasing trinkets, drinking, and continue a tradition of dancing around a pole. Some partake in a ritual known as Spring Break and, depending on the age group, involve themselves in a sundry amount of activities with different levels of regrets. We Spring Forward one hour in a timely tradition that no longer has any effect on our daily lives except to hear people complain on that Monday that they were tired because they had "lost" an hour or forgot all Sunday to fix their clocks.
I took a few minutes to find words that are associated with the concept of Spring and found 100 of them. All of them were warm and fuzzy words that we would use to describe a feeling, a person, or a puppy. To be honest, this one particular season is not on the top of my list. Actually, Spring is at the bottom of it, the bottom 25%. It is not all of the bright colors or celebrations that made this season in last in place.
I hate sneezing all of the damn time.
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