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Surging forth

Timothy Bulone

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March 20th, 2016 - 08:15 AM

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Surging forth

I was oblivious the moment that it happened. I suspect there is a precise moment in time when the Earth's perceived wobble around the sun strikes dead center and the day and night are equally divided and the promise of longer days lies inarguably ahead.

The word equinox has Latin roots, equi meaning equal and nox meaning night...equal night (the implication meaning the night takes up as much time as the daylight). It happens only twice a year in Spring and again in Autumn. I like the implied sense of balance between night and day, especially after a seemingly long winter full of many dark times.

I like that I won't be coming home in the dark after work and that I can walk Max before the sun sets for the day. But one of the truly amazing things about Spring being sprung is that Nature has begun to change her wardrobe, the hills here have been overrun with wildflowers of unimaginable brghtness, especially the poppies. Torrents of orange appear to flow like lava down the hillsides.

Mixed with these are the deep blue hues of lupine and the yellows of fiddlenecks and lavendars and other shades of plants whose botanic and common names I know not, but whose presence I feel and appreciate all the same. And all these painted on a canvas of the bright green grasses fostered by the snows and rains of the prequinox.

I am ready. I am ready for some balance. I am ready for some hope of longer, warmer days ahead. I am ready for the return of color. And I am grateful that the Earth reminds us, as she so brilliantly does, that life surges forth so passionately that we can't help but notice.

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