I've got it bad....Spring fever that is. I feel like all of the plants in my garden, slowly poking out of the ground, reaching for the sunlight, filled with life, and wanting to bask in the warmth outside. (Ok, I know it really isn't what I would call warm yet, but it's coming ;-)
And one of the first points to spring each year is Saint Patrick's Day. Now, while I have no Irish in me, Saint Patrick's Day has never really filled me with the rush it does for so many Pittsburghers, but it does get me excited for spring. I sat on my couch this morning with my dogs thinking about what is it about Saint Patrick's Day that I can connect to. I quickly ruled out the green beer, let's face it we all know that doesn't sit well in anyone's body, but my heart softened and I could feel a sense of relaxation as that small image of the clover plant came into my mind.
As a child I would often lay in my yard surrounded by tons of clover. I don't know if it was a gift, a resonance with the oddball in the crowd, or just a really good patch in my family's yard, but if I was relaxed I could look around and boom, there it was a four leaf clover. These are hard to find right? Well, that's what I was told too, but in one afternoon I would be known to find three or four of them in one sitting.
I was fascinated by the delicacy and the hope of possibilities when I would find one. Like, " Look, they said these were rare, but really they are everywhere! What else do people say that could not truly be the case?" I think at a young age I was already questioning the limited reality of mass consciousness. Why couldn't they be everywhere? Were people to busy just to look? Did they look past the small details of the leaves gently folding over one another camouflaging the fourth leaf? Were they told too many times that they are impossible to find, and so they never even looked to begin with?
Regardless, in my thoughts these little plants spark my mind to open to the possibility and hope that things are not always what they seem, and if you allow your expectations of the world around you to expand that something unique and marvelous may just appear before you!
So, at least for today I encourage you to take a minute to sit an allow your mind to ponder the question, "What am I currently thinking that could be limiting me from something more?", and then allow the creative juices of spring time to start to bloom from the inside out!
