Spring Sprung

First day of Spring 2023.

Daffodils on the first day of Spring, as seen in Carl Schurz Park.

Winter in the morning, Spring by evening. Began cold, ended warmer - just as one would expect. The forecasters say it'll be warmer than usual and wetter than usual.

A season for renewal. For fresh starts, new courses, experiments. And, it feels like sometimes, new relationships - for everyone, except yours truly. For NF, for Long-Term Houseguest, for everyone else. I should simply anoint myself Nice But Not Quite Right. Ah well. So it goes. I look around, and I am not ready to let anyone in anyway. So my renewal should be focused on myself this year.

And that was already the plan - to seek that balance, to be ok that really pretty good is all right, and maybe more happiness-inducing than perfection, than achieving the pinnacles. So I'll just lean in to it, by leaning a little bit out of it.

And maybe half assery will get me farther. Maybe doing less work - like no dig gardening or leaving a messy flower bed - will still yield plenty. Leaving more time, to make room for more people.

[Edited to completion March 21, 2023.]