Spring

Image: Muddy Glam

"We would lie in those afternoon beds, afterwards, hands on each other, talking it over. Possible, impossible. What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?"

-- Margaret Atwood, “The Handmaid’s Tale”

A little girl jumping around in the mud. That's how I feel. That's who I am.

The month of April has been happy choas for me. I've had a flat tire and car woes, money expenses and family conflict, I'm painting and taking an art class, and soon I'll even be moving houses. It's been just a little bit crazy!

Sometimes, life can be a Winter. Where months drag by slow and uneventful, and your life feels cold and isolated. But then the season changes and one fine day you wake up in Spring and suddenly your life is filled with change and surprise. New life springs up where there was once nothing; and you find yourself overwhelmed with roses and weeds that now need caring for.

We think we have such problems. How are we to know we're happy?

Truthfully, we are happy! We have no problems. There's no such thing. All of life is learning. And even the impossible is possible. We are "I am" all the same. Life is an art and it only lasts a little while before the seasons change. So we may as well play around in the muck of things.

Happy Spring!


Image: stylinonyou