“And now we welcome the new year. full of things we have never been.”
Rainer Rilke
March 20: the first day of Spring.
It feels so much more new year like than January 1, when my world is at its coldest. In March, the central California leaves are new and that fresh baby colored green. The flowers are fragrant, the birds are boldly singing their familiar yet new songs.
All feels perfectly right and good and holy.
I look out my living room window and I see grey clouds to the east and the lark outside my open window is serenading me.
On St Patrick’s day morning I heard “Amazing Grace” on bagpipes playing just moments after I wrote these words in my notebook:
“I start the day with a clean slate mind, without the beveled edges of memory offering me grace I don’t deserve.”
Spring feels like grace, the definition being mercy, favor, approval, pardon - not offered due to merit, but offered freely due to love, extraordinary, love without condition. Love that doesn’t keep score or give way to pressure. Yes, that is how Spring feels.
New beginnings, just because.
A fresh piece of paper.
The blended scent of lilac, wisteria and the heady invitation of orange trees full of ripe fruit.
The purr of your kitty, a constant companion either at your feet or beside you on the bed or perching on your hip, so happy no words may contain the feeling adequately.
And now we welcome Spring, in all her newness, and allow ourselves to be who we have never before allowed ourselves to be, simply because.
No other explanation necessary.
Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world. She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-media artist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming in Spring, 2015 and beyond.
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