Hope blooming...

As I drive into work in the mornings now, the sun is already risen, flooding the horizon with its light and warmth….

A lot of the time the drive can be really stressful – people are well…idiots...

Luckily, there is a stretch of park (actually donated to the city of Cleveland by the Rockefellers) – that I get to drive through right before I get to work, so the affect is calming and allows me to notice the beauty of nature (no matter the season).

Now, as spring comes to the this part of the world, slowly the earth reawakens - the landscape seems to change daily. I keep watching, lest I miss something – it used to bother me when I’d suddenly notice the trees with lush with foliage and I’d feel like I’d been robbed of something important...

Now the trees are covered at the ends of their branches with a fine ‘lacing’ of green – delicate – almost ethereal in quality. Verdant and promising. Each day as the buds mature a little more and begin to turn into flowers and leaves, I am filled with the hope of a new life.