It’s very sunny today. There is a lot happening outdoors. People are doing all sorts of things since Winter is ending, and it’s the first stretch of warm days in a while. Everyone is talking about how it’s an early Spring.

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It happens every year. People get out there, and they start clearing away the last patches of snow. They rake out the yards and prepare the gardens. They feel so lucky and blessed that they get an early start on the new season.

They get out their bikes and other warm weather things. They start wearing lighter clothes, and maybe even short pants and sleeves. It feels so great to be all aired out. They open the windows and get the bad air out. The new air rushes into the windows and fills the house with new life. It’s rather awesome.

What happens next is the streets melt off, and the slush builds up along the curbs, slowly draining into the sewer system, clearing all of that out as well. Of course there is the residue from the entire Winter, building up in that gooey, gray mess. That’s fine. It will pass with a good rain.

The best thing about it is the drier air. It would be one thing if the air was all damp and foggy and dismal, but the air is speeding things along. The evaporation of winter, isn’t all dank and gross, it’s pleasant. And the lifting barometric pressure speeds the thaw along. How nice.

After a week of this, people are all settled in to Spring. They’ve done some planting, they cleaned the screens and opened up their sun porches to the breeze. They’ve washed the salty sludge off their cars and trucks. They’ve waxed and polished them, too. So ready. So ready for the fresh new year.

Like a clock, but as if it has never happened in history, all of a sudden, there is a heaviness to the air, the temperature starts to drop, the sky gets a cover, and here comes the last big storm of the year. Every year it happens, and every year people behave as though they’re surprised.

It’s like when the politicians say, “This time it will be different, we’re going to do all the things the citizens want, and you’re going to be put first, things are going to improve, and your value will be appreciated and rewarded.”

It’s not different though. It’s the same every time. Every cycle, people forget. They thought it was over. It’s not over. You just have a lousy, short, dumb memory. Cool hope, bro.

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