like a fire

There is just something very special to me about being in Birmingham in the Spring. Maybe it’s just nostalgia, but it seems to me that it is just more beautiful here than other places I have experienced Spring. And Spring is a special time in my heart.

Today I took the fam out for breakfast (Jack’s - Cathy wanted a gravy biscuit) and then a trip to the botanical gardens in Mountain Brook. It was just a very chill morning. I was talking to Cathy about life in general and just feeling a sense of peace and renewal in the presence of of so much new growth. It wasn’t blooming as much as it was a couple of weeks ago, when the cherry blossoms were in full bloom in the Japanese garden, but it was still a great reminder of how this season brings new growth. It somehow, very metaphysically, restores my heart and soul. To be able to experience that with my family is a great gift. A year ago, I would have been too busy to enjoy it, even if I took time to do it. So goes the soil of my heart. There are new blossoms of growth that are growing from the decay that was there before. The winter that caused so much death and stagnation is beginning to thaw and bring new life.

Hopefully more on that later.