FOURTH ENTRY

To the Goddess, to the God
To the ONE that is all

To the Goddess, to the God
To the ONE that is all

A small chant that was running through my head this past weekend as I was driving out to L.I.C. with family to file for taxes. Watching the trees and checking to see if by any chance there were signs of buds on their branches. We're all looking forward to Spring and I more than usual. Spring will be the time of my allergies, but that's not why I'm looking forward to it. It's the rebirth of life all around that gives me this renewed energy high. Another reason is that once Spring arrives, I will no longer require the use of my car to get to work and home again. My daily exercise of walking to work and listening to my music along the way in peaceful bliss can resume.

It is the one thing that makes me feel life is worth living. Don't get me wrong. There are more reasons and each of us have our own reasons for living the way we do. I'm more curious about that single most important reason. What is it for you? For me, it's, undoubtedly, being surrounded by Nature. By the trees, the flowers, the morning smell of grass in the air, the birds chirping, the squirrels scurrying about, the few cats walking around our neighborhood, the people I meet on my walks to work who are usually either walking in pairs themselves for the morning exercise or walking their dogs and offering them smiles. Walking in to work, of course, delays me and so I end up staying later at work, but it's worth it.

Last year, I decided fairly late, after my allergy season was over, to start taking these morning walks, but that will not be so this year. As soon as the weather experts give me the go ahead that Spring weather is here to stay, my sneakers will come out of hibernation and my car will go into it (hibernation). So, come on Spring!!! We, New Yorkers, are eagerly awaiting your arrival.