The Daily News
1 Well, everybody talks about the weather...
2 An inconvenient truth: I enjoyed a popsicle the other day, St. Patrick's Day, which was just filled with barbecues and wonderful weather.
3 My popsicle melted faster than normal. I still enjoyed licking it and getting all that red juice all over my face. I threw the popsickle stick into a little water and squirt it into a small little river I created out of mud.
4 I watered and mowed down my weeds so that they looked ALMOST like a lawn, and I suddenly have flowers everywhere in my backyard.
6 I've been enjoying watering the flowers and aiming the nozzle high over my above-ground pool so that it drops like rain into the center of the pool. I have a small CD player outside playing Vivaldi. The sun beat down and with hope and vision the other day.
7 The night before last I took some Christmas lights out of my shed and took all but the green lights out and ran them from the corner of my overhang to the top of a garden arch, just for a nice St. Patrick's day barbecue.
8 I lit the other backyard lights and lit the coals.
9 A rubber duck with sunglasses floated amid the cherry blossoms that had landed in the pool. He would turn and stare for a second and then reverse direction.
10 If you put rasberry sauce on a corned beef and let it slow cook over a barbecue, it comes out beautifully within a few hours. The entire thing goes wonderfully with the spring air and with family and friends.
11 Saturday morning I met my daughter at the gym and we went to Starbuck's, just talking about what a gorgeous day it was, and how we couldn't wait for summer, and for out annual trip to Tahoe. A bird flitted in a maple tree and another sang sweetly.
12 Of course we felt guilty that enjoying a day like this while glaciers melt is tantamount to genocide. We laughed.
13 It was an inconvenient truth that we just enjoyed a beautiful day. We even had the nerve to CALL it a beautiful day.
14 Spring.
15 I love the Spring.
16 We are just about officially in Spring, but it has already put a lot of us into a better mood. Spring let's us reclaim our lives, to take our lives and who we are back, and with a joyous vengeance.
17 Those same people who irk us or those same things that seem SO important suddenly get placed in a perfect perspective to the things that are really important in life, like popsicles and the smiles of daughters.
18 If you look at things in just the right way, you smile for what you have, and you love everything worth loving on a beautiful Spring day.
19 Memories become vivid and alive; sounds remind us all of better days, and the entire world decides that we have a right to enjoy life and to smile at the simple things.
20 It's an inconvenient truth.
21 But on a bright sunny day in early Spring, we are all reborn.
22 Enjoy your day; mine's already being enjoyed.
23 Smile and open a window. Listen to the world turn into Spring.
24 And remember that there's nothing wrong with remembering fond memories of beautiful Spring days.
25 Love life.
26 Peace.
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