YES! SPRING IS COMING!

I looked at the clock this Morning and said to myself, “It is really only 7:02 AM.” My body is still on Central Standard Time and my mind follows. I don't know that it is any different than it is every year. I have one clock that is permanently on Daylight Saving time. It is an automatic time keeper like the one on your computer, but it doesn't change with the Season. It is not its fault. It is the problem with the idiot doing this typing. It calls itself a Weather Station, I bought it so I could see the outside temperatures. It has everything; barometer reading, inside/outside temps, inside/outside humidity and it indicates when there is a change emerging in the weather. The problem is I can't understand the instructions for setting it up. I have had it for at least four years and I still haven't adjusted the time so it automatically changes. I find the instructions confusing. For example; a while ago the outside temperature wouldn't read. I looked up the trouble shooting guide, did the obvious like install new batteries; nothing. The directions recommended that I “recycle power to the station.” I didn't know what that meant. I pressed all the buttons I could find. Scratched my head a lot. Finally I tried removing a battery and reinserting it. Success! Wouldn't it have been easier to say that? Or at least “interrupt the power” rather than recycle” Any of my children could probably set the time thingy, I don't think to ask them.

Before I went to college I was an electronic technician. When I graduated with a BA in psychology I still wasn't sure which way life was going to take me; besides I had a family and we needed to eat. I applied for all kinds of jobs. Two of the jobs I applied for were 'scientific writing'; on paper I had the credentials. I wonder if it was doing stuff like this, rewriting instructions from translations? I have purchased articles that have had instructions that were obviously written by some translator, in some foreign country, who had very little grounding in how we used English.

Fortunately I was hired by a Social Service Agency which prepared me for graduate school and the beyond. I would not have been a good fit as a scientific writer.

Maybe I do have more difficulty dealing with the time change this year. The weather isn't changing much. The snow is still deep and despite above freezing days, it doesn't seem to shrink much. We still have a pile of snow over six feet high, about twenty feet wide, at the end of our driveway. We have never had that before. Until a couple weeks ago, I thought I was going to get by without plowing the driveway this year. It snowed frequently, but it was never more than five or six inches at a time and I could drive through and pack it down. That huge pile of snow is just from the last two times it snowed.

In the last few days the promise of Spring has been evident. I heard a Sandhill Crane, a Green Heron and we saw some Swans. Other folks report hearing Red Wing Black Birds, seeing Robins and hearing the Cardinals Spring song. I know Spring is coming!

Yet, there has been an unyielding quality to this late Winter. Much promise of Spring and not much delivery. I am tired of slippery pathways. They were pretty good most of the Winter, but with the thawing every day and the freezing every night, they are treacherous in the Morning. We have sprinkled chemicals on them, it last a couple days and they are slippery again. I have to carry water for about fifty yards for the sheep, this Morning I was wondering if I could keep my footing. I don't worry about breaking bones, I am not fragile, but I would have a hard time getting back on my feet.

I don't mean this to be rant against Winter. It is incredibly beautiful. I have been in awe of how gorgeous these last few days have been. And, yes, sometimes we are eating out on the porch this time of year, sometimes I am able to water the animals with the hose- this is one of those other times. I have experienced forty below zero in March and I have seen it in the eighties [it was 79 this day in 2012 and 80 on the 17^th in 2012]. We know spring is coming!

And we know the light is increasing on the Earth. We know people all over the globe are opening their eyes and realizing a different world is possible. The vast majority of people have always preferred to live in peace, love and joy, they just didn't believe it was possible. They now know it is possible and we no longer have to accept the dictates of a few who gain power and wealth through violence. We will soon emerge from the control of the dark and folks will experience what a loving world can be.

Perhaps, our struggling to emerge from the dark that is attempting to maintain control, is similar to Spring struggling to release itself from a grudging Winter.

In both cases the light cannot fail.

Happy Friday everyone! Look for the Light.

Love and Peace, Gregg