The Days are Longer, and the Fountains are Wet

Thank goodness, Spring has sprung!!

I don’t know if it’s just that Easter is fast approaching, but I have certainly been feeling a sense of renewal lately.

There have been a number of physical manifestations…sunset is happening later and later in the day, trees by work which I’d seen bare so long that I couldn’t remember what they looked like with flowers have bloomed, the infamous cherry blossoms around the tidal basin are out full force, there is water in area fountains, and more and more people are getting outside more to just be. I almost feel like I’m back in southern California (well, except for that whole ocean waves and being beach side details!)

It feels amazing, actually, to feel the sun shine on my skin, literally re-energizing and re-invigorating me (and others, too). I’d say the air is different, which is true, but considering all the pollen, I’m not too sure it’s different in the best way.

In any case, though, I wanted to take this moment to think about renewal.

Years ago I finally completed my tattoo of a phoenix rising from flames. For a while, I had just the band of flames…but when circumstances came about that changed my life dramatically, I knew it was time for a change…for a memorialization of the things that had passed, and for all the new things yet to come. I was reminded recently of this tattoo (I know, hard to believe that I couldn’t think of something so visible, but it happens!) and wanted to try and hold onto that invigorated feeling.

I thought then, and thankfully am remembering now to focus on where I’m going and not be stuck on where I’ve been, and to know and trust, and have faith that I will get there. How silly I was to forget, even temporarily, that we’re all changing all the time, and that we have such potential in life.