As much as I loathe daylight savings in the AM, it's wonderful in the evening when the extra light makes me believe spring could really be here. It's invigorating to imagine that someday a warm wind will blow over our bare arms, flowers will bloom and we will be unable to find our baseball mitts, as opposed to being unable to find our basketball jerseys. Yes, spring is in the air!
I had to snap a picture on the fly when I saw this boy running along Main Street barefoot in his karate uniform. As he bounded through traffic, he captured the essence of that first hint of spring. It's the first deep breath you take after a long, dark winter. It's that first hit of euphoria when you remember that the snow melts and temperatures rise...every year. It's the first glimmer of possibility, the first awakened memory of a deep dive into a clear pool, the first realization that it's time to wake up and sing!
It makes you want to kick off your shoes and run barefoot through traffic toward something new...a karate lesson, perhaps.
3 comments:
We had similar meltdowns all day. I just let them tell me what the plan was and we did things very slowly. Boo to daylight savings.
The nice weather has been great. We have been in St George and it was really great there. The trees were in bloom.
I hate the daylight savings, at least this one. Losing an hour stinks. The gaining an hour isn't too bad! So me and Xanthe are daylight savings buds.
Always glad when the first week of Day Light Savings Change is over! It is tough on kids and their parents. Good luck to Xanthe and all:)
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