Everyone I've run into is up today. Cheerfulness abounds. The change is vibrantly clear, and very noticeable.
Unlike a bear wrestling with an empty stomach, dazed and confused from winter's long slumber, people have awoken in the last 2 days where I am - refreshed, alive, and embracing the first smells of spring. Grass is starting to appear now, where the ground is normally dry and hard in summer. There's still snow - lots of it - but it's secondary now and seems to acknowledge this, lying lower and crystalline and shameful on the ground.
It's the people though from the old out walking on ice-free paths, to the young who've abandoned their coats and mittens. They smile and embrace the little heat that peaks at midday. It's coming, and everyone knows it. We survived another one. Happy days indeed.
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