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Then another and another. Little things. The air feels brighter. The river is lower. Less practical footwear appears on the feet around you.</p> +<p>The mornings are crisp and the pollen hasn’t started yet. The trees still bare though the smaller shrubs turn purple and white. Everything feels fragile but possible again. </p> +<div class="picwide"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/bees-garden_2015-04-01_140134.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 1439px) 100vw, (min-width: 1440px) 1440px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/bees-garden_2015-04-01_140134_pic5.jpg 648w" alt="Bumblebee on bright pink flowers photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/bees-garden_2015-04-01_140134.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<p>It might not last. It’s possible another snow storm is yet to come, but you have to cast your lot with some version of the future. </p> +<p>And then the pollen does start. The world coalesces out of its dream state into great lime green clouds of oak and pecan pollen. A world of runny eyes and burning lungs. It’s awful for a week to ten days. Then the catkins fall in great heaps that mat in the corners of the deck, choke the gutters and require a rake to get out of the yard.</p> +<p>Then the clouds of pollen disappear and you know summer heat is only a week or two away. This is how it goes around here, year after year. It typically starts a bit before calendar spring. I’m not good with dates though. I’m not good with time actually. Unless I have a deadline. </p> +<p>Human are the only ones with deadlines. Spring comes when it comes. </p> +<p>There is the spring equinox. The plane of Earth’s equator passes through the center of the Sun with admirable regularity. It might not mark spring precisely, but from here on out there’s more light in the day than darkness. </p> +<p>If you whip out your stopwatch you’ll notice that the length of day and night aren’t <em>exactly</em> the same, but then if you’re the sort to whip out a stopwatch for holidays probably no one is going to invite your to their equinox party anyway. It’s close enough. It’s something to mark, somehow. </p> +<p>One of the unfortunate side effects of not being religious or subscribing to any particular religion<sup id="fnref:1"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1" rel="footnote">1</a></sup> is that you have little to mark. Days and months slide by. Changes proceed largely without us or without our marking them in any way. Secularists don’t have potlucks.</p> +<figure class="picfull"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/potluckchicken.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, (min-width: 751) 750px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/potluckchicken_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/potluckchicken_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="Child eating chicken at potluck lunch photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/potluckchicken.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="Secular potlucks? Chicken!"> + </a> +<figcaption>Secular potlucks? Chicken!</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>One of the wonderful things about the internet though is that it makes communities possible that would otherwise not be possible. No church to attend every Sunday with the same people? No problem, start a Facebook group<sup id="fnref:2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:2" rel="footnote">2</a></sup>. Profit. Or at least potluck.</p> +<p>Which is the world’s longest intro to we went to an equinox party and easter egg hunt with a bunch of fellow secularists. And it was great. There was even old school climbing equipment of the sort children could take real risks on. I’d like to attribute that to the lack of religion present, but that would be stretching it. I think it was just some playground equipment that time forgot.</p> +<div class="picfull"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/equinox-party_01.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, (min-width: 751) 750px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/equinox-party_01_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/equinox-party_01_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="girl climbing up a steep ramp photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/equinox-party_01.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" > + </a> +</div> + +<figure class="picfull"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/equinox-party_02.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, (min-width: 751) 750px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/equinox-party_02_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/equinox-party_02_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt="two girls climbing steep ramp photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/equinox-party_02.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="If your twin sister climbs something, there's no way you aren't going to do the same."> + </a> +<figcaption>If your twin sister climbs something, there’s no way you aren’t going to do the same.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>There was an egg hunt as well, though my children are a bit young to get too into it. They are far more enthralled by the own anticipation of a thing than any thing itself. Actually maybe that’s not something you grow out of, I think I’m the same way. The potluck was good. It had chicken. It marked a thing, a change, or the symbol of a change, that the weather sometimes aligns with, sometimes does not. But it lacked a certain gravitas.</p> +<figure class="picfull"> + <a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" href="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/equinox-party_03.jpg " title="view larger image"> + <img class="u-photo" itemprop="contentUrl" sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, (min-width: 751) 750px" srcset="https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/equinox-party_03_picfull-sm.jpg 750w, https://images.luxagraf.net/2016/equinox-party_03_picfull.jpg 1500w" alt=" photographed by luxagraf" data-jslghtbx="https://images.luxagraf.net/original/2016/equinox-party_03.jpg" data-jslghtbx-group="group" data-jslghtbx-caption="A couple of sticks, some water, hours gone."> + </a> +<figcaption>A couple of sticks, some water, hours gone.</figcaption> +</figure> + +<p>Not that spring has much gravitas. But there is a certain violence to change, even seasonal change, that seems like it’s worth a pause, however brief, to reflect. The snow melts, the rain falls, it all goes somewhere. Water cuts through red Georgia mud. Trees are washed from banks. Rocks tumble down to sand, slow canyons carved a bit more every year as the silt and sand rolls down from the Appalachia to the sea. The mountains themselves are changing, getting smaller, their sides steeper. All this change destroys what came before. </p> +<p>We like to paint spring as something that emerges out of winter, something that grows up from some blankness, and it does from one perspective, but we overlook that it destroys what came before. There is no change without destruction and decay. It’s possible to recast that destruction in pretty words, but it is always destruction, especially from the point of view of what came before. It would be interesting to hear what the caterpillar thinks of the butterfly.</p> +<p>I’m never going to get the collective solemnity of ceremony without religion though. I know that. That sort of gravity comes from larger groups of like minded people than I will ever find, even on Facebook. For now I’ll settle for potlucks.</p> +<div class="footnote"> +<hr> +<ol> +<li id="fn:1"> +<p>The sun god religions obsess over rules, power and control when we all know potlucks are what matters. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">↩</a></p> +</li> +<li id="fn:2"> +<p>It’d be a whole lot cooler if Facebook wasn’t the mediator of anyone’s community, but for now that’s where the people are so that’s where the communities are. Just remember that the <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/">people behind Facebook</a> are true <a href="http://deoxy.org/wiki/The_Johnson_Family">Burroughsian shits</a> and act accordingly. <a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:2" rev="footnote" title="Jump back to footnote 2 in the text">↩</a></p> +</li> +</ol> +</div> + </div> + <div class="entry-footer"> + <aside id="wildlife"> + <h3>Fauna and Flora</h3> + + <ul> + + <li class="grouper">Birds<ul> + + <li>American Robin </li> + + <li>Blue Jay </li> + + <li>Brown-headed Cowbird </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/brown-thrasher">Brown Thrasher</a> </li> + + <li>Canada Goose </li> + + <li>Carolina Chickadee </li> + + <li>Chipping Sparrow </li> + + <li>Downy Woodpecker </li> + + <li>Eastern Bluebird </li> + + <li>Eastern Towhee </li> + + <li>Gray Catbird </li> + + <li>Great Blue Heron </li> + + <li>Hooded Warbler </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-cardinal">Northern Cardinal</a> </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/northern-mockingbird">Northern Mockingbird</a> </li> + + <li>Red-bellied Woodpecker </li> + + <li><a href="/dialogues/summer-tanager">Summer Tanager</a> </li> + + <li>Tufted Titmouse </li> + + <li>Wood Duck </li> + + <li>Yellow-rumped Warbler </li> + </ul> + </ul> + </aside> + + + </div> + </article> + + + <div class="nav-wrapper"> + <nav id="page-navigation" > + <ul> + <li id="prev"><span class="bl">Previous:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2016/03/up-in-the-air" rel="prev" title=" Up in the Air">Up in the Air</a> + </li> + <li id="next"><span class="bl">Next:</span> + <a href="/jrnl/2016/05/root-down" rel="next" title=" Root Down">Root Down</a> + </li> + </ul> + </nav> + </div> + + + + + + +<div class="comment--form--wrapper "> + +<div class="comment--form--header"> + <p class="hed">Thoughts?</p> + <p class="subhed">Please leave a reply:</p> +</div> +<form action="/comments/post/" method="post" class="comment--form"> + +<input type="hidden" name="rder" value="" /> + + + <input type="hidden" name="content_type" value="jrnl.entry" id="id_content_type"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="object_pk" value="167" id="id_object_pk"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="timestamp" value="1596833425" id="id_timestamp"> + + + + <input type="hidden" name="security_hash" value="b6d3e4c01ff21bfcbdb8a839d4a45add0bb12a70" id="id_security_hash"> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_name">Name:</label> + <input type="text" name="name" maxlength="50" required id="id_name"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_email">Email address:</label> + <input type="email" name="email" required id="id_email"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_url">URL:</label> + <input type="url" name="url" id="id_url"> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset > + <label for="id_comment">Comment:</label> + <div class="textarea-rounded"><textarea name="comment" cols="40" rows="10" maxlength="3000" required id="id_comment"> +</textarea></div> + </fieldset> + + + + <fieldset style="display:none;"> + <label for="id_honeypot">If you enter anything in this field your comment will be treated as spam:</label> + <input type="text" name="honeypot" id="id_honeypot"> + </fieldset> + + + <div class="submit"> + <input type="submit" name="post" class="submit-post btn" value="Post" /> + <input type="submit" name="preview" class="submit-preview btn" value="Preview" /> + </div> +</form> +<p style="font-size: 95%;"><strong>All comments are moderated</strong>, so you won’t see it right away. 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