Category: spring

Oh, I love this quote, for so many different reasons. It’s warming up here (too warm already, if you ask me), and we are heading into a short-lived spring before the oppressive and stifling heat of summer suffocates us. (Can you tell I don’t like summer?)

But spring…that is a different story. I love gardening, and I am itching to dive into the dirt, plant flowers, stroll around the yard and talk to plants and ooh and ahh over every new bud and each tiny, green, unfolding leaf. I am ready to wander around garden centers and spend way too much money. I am ready to spend my weekends in the yard, digging, trimming, planting, loving.

I also like this quote because my own winter involved the crushing difficulty of dealing with my mother’s death. I would never say “well, I’m over that now”, because I know it will hurt on some level forever, and I will always miss her. That’s the price of love, I suppose. But I am able to think of her and smile at a memory sometimes instead of instantly crying. So this spring is personal for me, a reawakening of my own, a spiritual and emotional one. A reblooming after crumbling. Rising again after collapsing.

I am ready for spring. I am ready for changes. I am ready for growth and love and hope. It’s time for winter to end and for me to find the sunlight again.