Spring has Spring

 

Spring is here!

Now, I love Winter being a Winter baby, myself. I am ready for this new season and hoping it will be wonderful for all of us.

Wordless Wednesday: First buds of Spring

 

Spring is here!

 

Happy Friday and Happy Spring, my friends!

From

 After The Winter by Claude McKay 

And we will seek the quiet hill

     Where towers the cotton tree,

And leaps the laughing crystal rill,

     And works the droning bee.

And we will build a cottage there

     Beside an open glade,

With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,

     And ferns that never fade.

Just like this sweet bear, I am ready for Spring. I always like to make plans for each season. Personal and professional goals to hit. Take this early part of Spring to think of what goals you like to accomplish this season. With now the vaccine beginning to be given out, hopefully we will able to be out and about a bit more safely. I saw this video today, I thought to share with all of you. It is from NYT Cooking. It is a sweet story about cooking and being able to thrive when life throws you a curveball. Enjoy.

Spring is Spring

Happy Friday, my friends. I know it doesn't feel like Spring. With all of us in some form of lockdown, quarantine, social distancing, it is not life as usual.

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Jake will be doing remote learning starting on Monday. He also has therapies as well which will be done remotely too. I have no idea how it's going to go. I have to do my best to remain calm and stable for him. That hasn't been always easy.Fortunately, I am working on my writing and doing intuitive readings, I am able to keep my mind occupied. By nature, I do look for the positive.

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Today, look at the silver lining. What good can come from all these challenges? It may be hard to find some, I know you can do it. Flip the script. Turn lemons to lemonade.I was just on the phone with my creative partner. He was saying that now he can write with everything shut down. For me, I been loving being comfortable with Zoom now.Thinking about how I use zoom and
skype more for my intuitive business. Find the gifts in all this new normal we are in now.Wishing you all the best. Swan of Dreamers will be here to keep you with pockets of sunshine in my posts.

Happy May Day

It is a brisk and cold spring here in The Bronx. I wish I could spend some of
May Day frolicing in my local park, looking for the Green Man with flowers in
my hair.How to celebrate this day if you have loads of responsibilities like me or
have the weather be crappy on this day like me. Improvise my friends.

Here are easy tips for you:

*Play music that makes you feel free and light like spring.

*Bring flowers to your home: real or fake. Decorate flowers
around your home. Wear flowers in your hair or wear floral
clothing.

*Spritz floral fragrance on yourself or in your home.

*Burn pretty candles. Here is a pretty electric rose candle I
got from dollar tree.



*Find a piece of poetry you like to read celebrate today.

*Write your own poetry.

*Make rest of Spring plans you like to accomplish.
For me, I have to start searching for photographers to get
new acting headshots. and, continue my workout routine.

I am leaving you this lovely poem by one of my favorites,
Emily Dickinson.

Whose maids upon remoter green
Keep their Seraphic May —
And all day long, with dance and game,
And gambol I may never name —
Employ their holiday.

Here to light measure, move the feet
Which walk no more the village street —
Nor by the wood are found —
Here are the birds that sought the sun
When last year's distaff idle hung
And summer's brows were bound.

Ne'er saw I such a wondrous scene —
Ne'er such a ring on such a green —
Nor so serene array —
As if the stars some summer night
Should swing their cups of Chrysolite —
And revel till the day —

Like thee to dance — like thee to sing —
People upon the mystic green —
I ask, each new May Morn.
I wait thy far, fantastic bells —
Announcing me in other dells —
Unto the different dawn!

Spring is here!

I wish I could tell you it is a beautiful day
here in The Bronx. I went out skipping under
radiant sunshine and could feel spring in the air.
Alas, it is a cold, cloudy day with rain in
the forecast.

I tried to get Jake to go with me to the store
to get flowers for the first day of Spring. No dice.
I am sitting in front of my lovely altar. Dreaming
of warm weather, bare legs, dandelions and apple blossoms.
It may not feel like Spring but it is Spring in my heart.



Happy Spring my friends. If you are on the other side of
the world, Happy Autumn.

Happy Spring

Hello my friends. It is a gloomy looking day in The Bronx with a threat of snow coming in the air. Snow!! Winter won't let go. At 6;45 est, Spring will officially be here. Not only is it the Spring Equinox, it is a New Moon in Aries, and a Solar Eclipse. It is a cosmically charged day, my friends.



Here is my Spring altar chock filled with roses, eggs, bunnies, crystals and shells. I have my altar up high to discourage Jacob and Jet from getting to it. Having a preschooler and a kitten around makes for a lot of highjinks especially when decorating.

Are you planning anything fun today and the first weekend of Spring? Any fun Spring goals for yourselves? Please share in the comments.

I want to share with you a lovely story about Spring; also, why bunnies and eggs are connected to it. The story goes ,as I understand it, that the goddess Ostara had woken up from her slumber. Thus spring began. All the animals wanted to share an offering to her. So they did, then one sweet Bunny came up to her. The bunny had a basket of eggs with colors in the shades of flowers, sky and sunshine. Ostara was so delighted with her gift. She declared Bunnies and eggs her personal favorites. Long after new religions sprang, still bunnies and eggs remain part of Spring.

I'm wishing you all a wonderful brand new Spring.