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Heartwings Love Notes 513 - Nature's Easter Parade

Heartwings says, "Nature goes all out for Easter, how can we do less?"

Driving down the lovely streets of my town on a sunny spring day I found myself easily distracted by the beauty around me. I had to focus conscientiously on my driving to keep from getting carried away with the ecstatic feelings that arose as I traveled past the beautiful budding tree lined roads and the blossoming yards beside them. Brilliant yellow forsythia glowed everywhere. It came to me that the pink and white dogwoods and the blossoming pear and cherry trees looked like ladies in flowery bonnets, forming a very special Easter parade by Nature.

I remembered dressing up for church on Easter, wearing the flower corsages my father gave me every year. Then I recalled newsreel pictures at the movies as well as later television broadcasts of families dressed in their best, parading down Fifth Avenue in New York and Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. I used to marvel at the families, some with ten or twelve children all dressed up in their shiny best walking along hand in hand.

Women wore wonderful hats, sometimes with feathers or flowers on the brim. Like me, little girls wore real straw, hats with broad, turned up brims and a wide grosgrain ribbon that went around the crown and hung down in the back. I disliked the uncomfortable elastic that went under my chin. Little boys were sometimes dressed as miniature adults in suits and hats, or else they wore little sailor suits.

As in the plant world spring brings forth new growth, it calls me to shed my metaphoric old skin and don a shiny new one. I feel hopeful, excited, anticipatory, more ready for a new year now than I felt on January first. The spring celebration of Easter is all about newness. The original tradition behind wearing new clothes on Easter was to invoke good luck for the year ahead. Spring is truly a time to celebrate the new and to join the Easter Parade that Nature so kindly provides.

May you find new joys at Easter and always.

Blessings and Best Regards,
Tasha Halpert

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