Spring Tonic

I'm making a pathway to springtime in my mind. Everyday I wake up and move my thoughts to brighter, warmer days. Miracles happen every day, every minute, all around the world and right next door. Spring is one of those miracles - spring on the earth and spring in our hearts - in great masses of people rising up, or family and friends saying fond farewells to loved ones. You can't have spring without winter, or life without death, whether it's death of a regime or an individual. Something new, and maybe better, will come from it. So I'm doing my best to make sure that all the big and little deaths and passages in my life lead to a brighter, deeper awareness.
I think I'm going to like the spring of 2011 more than ever, and that's a lot because spring is my favourite season. I've lost and learned more than usual this winter, so this spring promises to be a good one. There are lots of seeds slumbering beneath the snow. I put them there. The way I live my life germinates them. I can hardly wait to watch them grow.
I guess you wonderful people who pass by this way every once in a while have noticed I've got cabin fever. At least I live in a nice cabin. But I'm looking forward to opening the windows, and most of all, stepping outside. I'm a writer and actor and cherish my imagination, so in the meantime I'll find a way to do that with what's available to me right now and where I am, metaphorically speaking. I know I can. That's what I'm doing when I write these words. It's fun. It makes me feel better. Looking at pretty pictures of springtime subjects makes me feel better, too. I hope it does the same for you.
Blessed be,
-G.P.