“Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature—if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you—know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.”
–Henry David Thoreau
What aspect of spring awakens you and allows you to feel your pulse?
I do not enjoy yard work, but when the snow FINALLY melted here in northern Michigan, I knew I really had to rake the leftover leaves so that the grass could awaken. Inspiration in the chore was awakened in me when I began to imagine that I was brushing Mother Nature’s hair and giving her a nice scalp massage!
The trees outside my office window have burst open with huge clumps of small pink flowers.
I respond to morning sunshine through the tender, yellow-green leaves on our trees.
The grass here in Germany is such a brilliant green now. In the winter, it was almost as green as it gets in Colorado’s spring instead of the many hues of brown it has in Colorado’s winters. However, now that it’s spring, the grass is much, much greener than it ever was in Colorado. I’m wondering how many years it will take for me to be desensitized to the greenness of it all.
The bright chartreuse GREEN of new growth stimulates my pulse to beat in tune with the pulse of Mother Earth.
When our prickly ocotillo thinks about leaves but tops each branch with flowers, and when the hummingbirds take the time to sit atop our fountain and spread their little wings for a bath.