I love seasons. I need to live in a place with seasons. I’m always ready for them… for the changes both externally and internally that they bring. Spring is kind of a tough one here in the Pacific Northwest, though. We are more than ready for warmer, sunnier days by the time March rolls around… and we do get some “teasers” in there… but mostly, the grey and rainy days persist, sometimes well into June. So it always kind of comes up on me unawares… the official day of spring equinox. It was actually Facebook that alerted me with “Happy first day of spring, Lauri!” But, thinking about it now, I did feel it. Even before I realized it was spring, I felt a subtle shift… an openness to and awareness of new life. Inside and out. A sense of freshness… of breathing cleaner air, literally and metaphorically… read more
Lauri Jones 